Photography is Magic, Aperture Gallery, New York, July 14 — August 11 2016
“Aperture’s 2016 Summer Open was a call for conributions to the idea of photography as a magical form. This optimistic premise attracted a diverse scope of magical contemporary approaces - from pictures found in the happenstance of everyday life to elaborate stagings of studio or desktop experiments. The photographic practices represented in the final selection are rich with vitality and deep curiosity for the magical medium of photography. They share a fascination with and substantial knowledge of the historical roots and the contemporary state of photography. These artists actively play with the medium’s hertiage - reanimating and re-contextualizing its alchemical properties - to render ideas about its contemporary material value. They are astutely aware of the niewers’ perceptions and trains of thought,gorunded in our shared context of an ever-expanding image world. The invite us to pay attention to the thriving possibility of photography as an experin=mental platform, rich with materiality and visual sleight of hand.” Charlotte Cotton, curator.
Artists: Delaney Allen, Syl Arena, Lucy Wood Baird, Stella Baraklianou, Amelia Bauer, G. Roland Biermann, Thom Bridge, Radek Brousil, Drew Brown, Bubi Canal, Ellen Carey, Jesse Chehak, Joseph Desler Costa, Adam Ekberg, Annabel Elgar, Ailbhe Greaney, Valerie Green, Jill Greenberg, Aaron Hegert, Matthew Herrmann, Sheree Hovsepian, Noah Jackson, Jessica Labatte, Dionne Lee, Matthew Leifheit and Cynthia Talmadge, Jo Longhurst, Jason Lukas, Chris Maggio, Irene Mamiye, William Miller, Chris Mottalini, Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay, Jennifer Niederhauser Schlup, Zachary Norman, Ryan Oskin, Megan Paetzhold, Meghann Riepenhoff, Anastasia Samoylova, Michael Schmid, Marco Scozzaro, Katie Shapiro, Tabitha Soren, Jessica Thalmann, Sonja Thomsen, Patricia Voulgaris, Marta Wlusek, Guanyu Xu, Hyounsang Yoo, Junsheng Zhou.
Work exhibited: New Order (Brazil), 7 dye sublimation transfers on aluminium
Installation views: Aperture Foundation