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Social Medium Opening [Fotofocus Biennal]

Presented by FotoFocus at Wave Pool, Cincinnati OH

Sep 15 2018
Social Medium Opening [Fotofocus Biennal]

Social Medium exhibits and facilitates projects that create archives of communities made collaboratively with the communities being documented. September 15 – November 10

Wave Pool is proud to present the group exhibition Social Medium, opening September 15th 7-10pm. Curated by Wave Pool Executive Director, Calcagno Cullen, Social Medium is a participating exhibition in the Fotofocus Biennial 2018. Artists have a long history of making socially engaged work, acting as instigators for community redevelopment, and for being able to build communication and collaboration within communities through creative means. Social Medium exhibits these community-led archives—with photography in particular
used to frame the subject and narratives of these neighborhood stories, yet never forgetting that there is a fine line between celebrating marginalized populations and exploiting them.

To find the balance between using a camera to tell a story vs. creating one, then, there has been a surge of photographic experiments that blur the lines between photographer and subject, artist and community. This exhibition will display the results of several of these collaborative approaches to photography, as well as see a community-based shared photography project to fruition with our own community.

For Social Medium, Wave Pool’s September artists-in-residence Eliza Gregory and Gemma-Rose Turnbull will create an interactive archive collaboratively with the residents of Camp Washington, and local artists Natalie Mancino and Jacqueline Wood will also create new bodies of work in collaboration with neighborhood residents.

Rebecca Hackemann and Mark Strandquist’s Archive of Unmade Photographs invite individuals to create a postcard in response to the question, “What moment from your life do you most wish you had a photograph of?” Jason Lazarus’ Too Hard To Keep is similarly open to any participant, and the artist has been receiving photographs through the mail that are deemed ‘too painful to live with any longer’.

And finally, the large scale video installation Question Bridge by artists Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayete Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair makes its Cincinnati debut. Via individual interviews with black men, the project creates a platform for them to “represent and redefine black male identity in America.”

As part of the exhibition, Wave Pool is hosting a panel discussion as well as an in-depth workshop for artists and photographers interested in learning more about social practice photography practices.

It is our intent that this exhibition will push gallery visitor’s preconceptions of what photography is and get viewers to reconsider the roles of author and subject within art practice.

LOCATION

Wave Pool

2940 Colerain Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45225

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