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.

Installation view Previous/Next. Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Installation view Previous/Next. Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Installation view Previous/Next. Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Please Excuse Our Mess, 2014 (diptych) 
Unique photographic C-prints, black walnut
8 x 10 x 5.7 in. / 20.3 x 25.4 x 14.5 cm

Cuchara, 2014 

Unique photographic pigment print, oxidized nail and enamel spoon

12.75 x 8.5 x 2.7 in. / 32.3 x 21.6 x 6.9 cm

Overhead Projection, 2014 

Unique pigment print on transparency material

20 x 16 in. / 50.8 x 40.6 cm

Slice Viewer, 2014 (side view)

Unique photographic C-print, plexiglass and black walnut

2.6 x 2.1 x 10 in. / 6.6 x 5.3 x 25 cm

Casa Silo, 2014

Pigment print on archival cotton paper.

21 x 25 in. / 53.3 x 63.5 cm

Infinite Rewrite I, 2014

Unique analogue C-print

11 x 9 x 3 in. / 27.9 x 22.9 x 7.6 cm

Rolled, 2014

Nine unique photographic prints

12 x 9 x 2 in. / 30.5 x 22.9 x 5.1

Opening, 2014

Unique pigment print on canvas, wood board and emergency blanket

14 x 9 x 4 in. / 35.6 x 22.9 x 10.1 cm

The Week in Pictures, 2014

Unique archival C-print

48.5 x 37 x 2.25 in. / 123.2 x 94 x 5.7 cm

↑Back to Top