By delving into these large image files, certain narratives began to emerge seeking to understand and give meaning to the reconfiguration of daily life and anxiety experienced. Oblique reflections of the reality, without the objective aims of photojournalism and based on individual experiences from places as far away as Thailand, Russia, Iran, United States, Argentina, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Nigeria, etc. Unlike the most recognisable images that the previous pandemic left us, which are of darkness and almost literal despair of “German expressionism”, we find ourselves today with an active desire to abandon the painful and sad for a pandemic hedonism. The following images invite us to cover and take them. Utopias and dystopias live together speculatively, showing new combinations in the relations between individuals, cities and nature.
Laura Ojeda Bär is visual artist and independent curator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Particularly interested in contemporary productions of images and their technical and material decisions, he performs individual-creation and research projects focusing on works of art are experienced today, and the various temporalities that are strained at such meetings. He has held numerous individual exhibitions (2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022) and Quadraginta is his seventh curatorial project. He has won private and public awards and his work can be found in local and international collections.
Access the exhibition’s presentation video: Paula Bruno, the exhibition’s coordinator, talks to Laura Ojeda Bär, a plastic artist and the exhibition’s curator.
You can see the selected images below, accompanied by the text prepared by the curator [Note: this web page only accepts JPG format. For an optimal view of the works, click on the link on the author's name]: