Dates:
Exhibition Dates EXTENDED
October 8, 2012 – January 5, 2013
Opening Reception:
DATE CHANGED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY
December 5, 2012, 5:00-7:00pm
Artist Talk:
DATE CHANGED DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY
December 1, 2012, 12:00-1:00pm
Location:
Pregones Theater
571 - 575 Walton Avenue
(between 149 & 150th Streets, one block west of the Grand Concourse)
Bronx, NY 10451 tel: 718-585-1202
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9:30am to 5:30pm with extended hours during show nights.
Check www.pregones.org for those extended hours.
Statement:
The subject of attention in this work has been mainly my extended family,
including intimate friends, and places of relevance to my experience or the
history of those close to me. But more than a story or chronicle of their lives
or mine, my concerns lay in areas of interpersonal relationships, emotional
and physical distance, the psychological effect of spaces and environments
surrounding us, and the awareness of the present at any given moment. While
deeply personal, the series as a whole addresses other issues like the perception
of time, migration, geographic and cultural connections, displacement, evolution
of identity, and gender roles. The length of time and geographic coverage, as
well as the greater ambition of the project, has made this body of work quite
substantial in terms of imagery and scope.
I have been immersed in this work and photographing those who are,
and what is, close to me from 1994 until this day. By now, the family is largely
spread across generations, and over an area that goes from the Caribbean
across the United States and into Canada. While we have been fortunate to
maintain strong family ties, I can’t help to notice the slow but inevitable dilution of
these relationships as a result of distances, differences in environments and the
cultural upbringing of younger generations, language, economics, and more. This
experience, I am sure, is similar to that of many American families with ties to not
only Latin America but also many other parts of the world.
Read more about Alex HERE.
Student/educator brochure available HERE (PDF download)
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