PREVIOUS / NEXT

PREVIOUS / NEXT, Galería Agustina Ferreyra , San Juan, Puerto Rico Galería Agustina Ferreyra is pleased to announce PREVIOUS/NEXT, Livia Corona Benjamin's first solo exhibition at the gallery. In this new body of work, the artist cannibalizes her own images of abandoned grain silos she has photographed extensively throughout Mexico, and appropriates the formal characteristics of these iconic structures to investigate the exchange intrinsic to making and viewing images. The artist circumvents medium specificity as she rummages through photography’s bag of tricks, and subjects each technical tool to an architectural process of salvage, deconstruction and adaptive reuse. The exhibition questions what classic architectural and landscape photography is or should be, and explores the simultaneous desire to overcome its limitations and somehow pierce the two-dimensional surface. The works, play with the placid stillness of the medium by introducing external sculptural components that lend the images volume and movement. The picture (or the photographic paper) is (mis)treated as an object—stuffed, pierced, rolled, filtered, reconstituted—transforming the perception of representational space into an unexpected realm, and creating an undulating resonance between subject and viewer.