COLORS OF HÜZÜN
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presents COLORS OF HÜZÜN by Pedro Vidal @_pedro_vidal
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“The colors and forms reproduced in the images are like verbs or adjectives in a poem.”
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Pedro Vidal observes Istanbul through fragments of everyday life, where gestures and color quietly unfold. His images resist explanation, offering instead a sense of shared melancholy that lingers within the city’s atmosphere. Drawing on the idea of hüzün, the work moves beyond individual emotion, tracing a collective condition shaped by history and presence. There is no single defining image here, no final view to hold onto. Instead, the city reveals itself slowly, in moments that remain open and unresolved. Through this, Pedro invites us to look without certainty, to stay within the act of seeing, and to accept what cannot be fully understood.
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presents OUT OF PLAY by Marco Lugli @luglimarco77
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“The series moves through abandoned rooms where time has settled like dust, thick and unmoving, yet illuminated by thin, deliberate lines of light.”
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Taken together, Marco Lugli’s photographs and text establish a framework in which absence is understood through material continuity rather than loss. His work shifts attention from what is no longer present to how meaning is held within spatial relations, proposing a way of reading interiors grounded in observation rather than narrative reconstruction. What emerges is not closure, but an ongoing condition that asks the viewer to engage with what persists and to recognize the capacity of space to hold and carry experience beyond its original use.
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presents REIMAGINING TALIESIN by Amy Newton-McConnel @anmcconnelphotography
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“Through abstraction and fragmentation, the series reflects how design shapes the way we see, inhabit, and return to space — again and again.”
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In Amy Newton McConnel’s photographs, Taliesin West moves beyond structure into a field shaped by light, movement, and perception. Geometry softens, shadows shift, and architecture unfolds through time rather than remaining fixed. Her images do not document the site as a monument but engage it as a living system, where space is experienced through the body and changing light. Through abstraction and attention to form, the work reframes how we encounter architecture, inviting a slower, more attentive way of seeing that reveals new meanings within familiar structures.
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IN AN INSTANT OPENING PARTY

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Saturday April 25, 5-10

IN AN INSTANT is a community exhibition of instant film, bringing together a collection of photographs submitted by creators, each bringing their own way of seeing. Each image captures a moment as it happened, developed and held in real time. Sensitive to light, temperature, and touch, instant film introduces chance into the image-making process.

Come for the flash. Stay for the memory.

SYLVIA MUELLER
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presents WHERE THE MUSIC BEGINS by Jeevan Akash Jayavarthanan @jeev.jaypg
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“My journey into this world began with a simple curiosity about the origins of sound. I found myself in the workshops of artisans like Chinnappa, men who have spent over three decades listening to the “voice” of wood. To them, a Veena is not manufactured; it is birthed from the heart of a jackfruit tree.”
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Through his photographs, Jeevan Akash Jayavarthanan reminds us that the stories of culture and craft are often found far from the stage where their final expression is heard. Sound begins as silence. It lives first in wood, in careful measurement, and in the steady rhythm of tools against grain. Through attentive observation, Jeevan allows us to witness the moment before music begins, when the instrument still waits for its voice. The textures of labor, the concentration of the artisan, and the quiet presence of tradition come together in images that honor both the process and the people who sustain it.
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presents LAND, LABOR, AND THE GOLDEN FIBER by Rajesh Dhar @rdp5.6
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“Jute is a 100% recyclable natural material. Transitioning to alternative sustainable materials can help mitigate the carbon intensity associated with plastic production and its impact on climate change.”
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In the jute fields of West Bengal, Rajesh Dhar documents a material that has supported communities for generations. His photographs show how land and work are connected, and how this “golden fiber” continues to play a role in more sustainable ways of living. By photographing within these environments, he captures how traditions continue in the present through everyday labor.
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presents WITH GRATITUDE AND DEVOTION by Rafael Ayala Páez @rafaelayalapaez0
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“I have sought to document the poetry of the procession. The Christ of Health reminds us that hope and love live in small gestures, and not in the grandiosity of the world.”
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Rafael Ayala Páez photographs with respect and closeness. Through writing and image, he offers a portrait of belief carried through care and continuity, inviting us to witness a community moving together in devotion. He does not approach faith as something to be explained or translated, but as something lived.
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presents SILVER AND BREATH by Eva Christina Nielsen @eva_christina_nielsen
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“I wait for the moment when the subject disconnects from me and my presence and wanders off in their thoughts.”
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Within this fragile space between looking and being seen, Eva Christina Nielsen has developed a practice that is both restrained and deeply attentive. Her portraits unfold gradually, asking something rare of the viewer. Patience, presence, and a willingness to truly see. Within her photographs tonal range becomes emotional language. Deep blacks carry gravity. Soft silvers hold vulnerability. Light moves across skin with a tactile quality that feels almost physical. Silver carries the image. Breath gives it life.
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presents GUIDED BY A WHISPER: in conversation with Isolda Fabregat Sanz @isolda_photography
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“I resist immediacy, I feel like the world is spinning… So, I rebel, I want to move slow.”
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At a time when photographs are expected to perform instantly, Isolda Fabregat Sanz’s work insists on patience. Her images do not present conclusions. They remain open, attentive to the conditions of their making and their encounter. Working across portraiture, fashion, and documentary practice, Isolda refuses the hierarchies that separate these forms. Instead, she treats them as shared territories in which questions of authorship and representation remain unresolved. Her professional experience in art history informs both how images are created and how they are understood.
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presents RUPTURE REPAIR REMNANT by Donna Bassin @p1nhole.donnabassin
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“The question beneath my work is straightforward: how do we live with what has been torn within us, between us, and around us without looking away?”
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Rupture is not an abstract condition but a lived one, registered in bodies, relationships, landscapes, and images. This text unfolds as an inquiry into how damage is acknowledged, carried, and worked through over time, without denial or premature resolution. Moving between artistic practice, psychological listening, and material process, it traces an ongoing engagement with mourning, witnessing, and repair, not as a return to an original state, but as an ethical labor that remains partial and unfinished.

This inquiry lives at the center of Donna Bassin’s work. A Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-based photo artist, filmmaker, writer, and clinical psychologist, she works at the intersection of art making and trauma care, where attention itself becomes a form of devotion.
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presents DELTA DUSK by John Agather @johnagather
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“The Mighty Roots Music Festival is a testament to the creativity and love for this hallowed ground by an Oldham descendant, Howard Stovall. He decided to return to the land of his ancestors and honor the incredible art form born in this bend of the Mississippi Delta.”
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The Delta does not introduce itself. It reveals only fragments. John Agather moves through the streets of Clarksdale, Mississippi, tracing the heart of a town shaped by music and memory. Six miles out at Stovall Farms, on land once tied to Muddy Waters, the Mighty Roots Music Festival gathers musicians and families at the site of a former cotton gin. He walks, watches, and listens. The photographs sit beside his words, each carrying the same weight. Together they form a record shaped by time spent and ground covered. In this space, the Delta is not explained. It is simply allowed to speak.
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presents SILENT BEAUTY by Tamara Quadrelli @tamaraquadrelli
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“In the silence of the afternoon, sunlight draws new shapes and reveals a beauty that makes no sound.”
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Tamara Quadrelli works from the simple joy of looking. Noticing how light slides across a wall, how a curtain shifts in the breeze, how color holds its own in the afternoon sun. In Silent Beauty, architectural elements become sites of formal inquiry, registering time and use without recourse to narrative or explanation. Corners cut across the frame. Walls open into broad planes of color. Openings appear briefly, then close again. The photographs remain anchored in the visual conditions of the built environment, where architecture, light, and color determine the terms of engagement.
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presents SOLITUDE UNDER A TECHNIFIED SUN
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Photography and story by Héctor Morón
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Héctor Morón interrogates the contemporary city as an engineered system in which human presence is increasingly subordinate to the infrastructures that regulate space, movement, and visibility. The urban environment is framed not as a site of lived experience, but as an operational field, structured by circulation, illumination, and technological continuity. Héctor’s images resist documentary function, instead positioning photography as a critical apparatus through which urban conditions are translated into symbolic form. He does this through the symbiosis of abstract and allegorical conceptual photography, which he calls Allegorical Abstractionism.

“I created Allegorical Abstractionism, a visual philosophy that redefines ICM through a Mediterranean Baroque sensibility — solar, emotional, and incandescent — where light becomes both matter and metaphor.”
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presents 4320 MINUTES WITHOUT COLOR
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Photography and story by Mohammed Nahi
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4320 Minutes Without Color is a photographic and written work by Algerian photographer Mohammed Nahi, shaped by a period when vision could no longer be trusted. Structured around a defined duration, the project does not describe loss or recovery but attends to an interval of uncertainty — where perception shifts and attention deepens. Developed after a temporary corneal injury, the work moves away from clarity and confirmation, embracing blur, tonal ambiguity, and hesitation. Black and white becomes a condition rather than a style, while time stretches and contracts. Mohammed’s own account is written from inside that suspended space, where seeing must be relearned moment by moment.

“I was no longer photographing what I saw. I was photographing what I could not fully trust.”
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