Why another photo? From the archive to personal projects: vintage photography and contemporary practices, is a 5-day workshop taught by Alex Dorfsman that invites you to explore the archive as a creative engine, transforming existing images into new visual stories.
Today, we are immersed in a deluge of photographic and moving images. Amidst this vast universe, we can feel overwhelmed and lost regarding the true value of an image.
We might suddenly ask ourselves, why produce more photographs? And without a concrete answer, we can explore the idea of what can be done with existing photographs.
We will discover the endless possibilities for creating creative narratives from existing, collected photographs, which now become new statements, new and different stories.
Throughout this course, we will explore one of the most important paradigms in the history of art and photography: the archive as part of the creative process.
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Alex Dorfsman studied Fine Arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City. He was a fellow of the FONCA Young Creators program (2005–2006) and received a grant from the FONCA Program for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments (2007–2008). In 2011, he was awarded the Purificación García Latin American Photography Prize. From 2014 to 2016, he was a member of FONCA's National System of Art Creators.
He has held solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows in Mexico and abroad. His artistic practice draws from disciplines such as geography, biology, literature, and philosophy, from which he constructs a discourse primarily focused on photography and video.
Throughout his career, he has published eight books, including 3 pausas rumbo a Nikko, This Mountain Collapsed and Became a Bridge, Plot Your Progress, and It’s Almost Real, Isn’t It?
Alex currently lives and works in his studio in Mexico City.
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
