For nearly forty years, FotoFest has presented and worked with artists, photographers, and thinkers from Japan, Latin America, Korea, China, Russia, and the Arab Region,and it is the first time in the Biennial’s 37-year history that the central exhibition will focus on artists of African origin.
“FotoFest has a long history of international engagement, and we are especially excited to be working with photographers from Africa and its diaspora in 2020.”
– Steven Evans, executive director of FotoFest.
In their unique practices, the featured artists turn an eye to social, cultural, and political conditions that inform and influence concepts of representation as they pertain to image production and circulation in Africa and beyond. These artists question the ways in which subjectivity is constructed and deconstructed by the camera, and in the process, reveal legacies of resistance by those who defy traditional ideas of sexual, racial, gender-based, and other marginalized identities.
Founded in Houston in 1983, FotoFest is the first and longest running photographic arts festival in the United States. It was held for the first time in 1986 and has become known as a showcase for the discovery and presentation of important new work and talent from around the world. The Biennial takes place citywide in Houston with participation from leading art museums, art galleries, non-profit art spaces, universities and civic spaces. |
Category: | Art & Craft, Illustrated |
ISBN: | 9789053309322 |
Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Books |
On sale: | May 2020 |
Format: | Hardcover |
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