Galeria Elvira Moreno proudly announces our first solo exhibit featuring Venezuelan artist Beatriz Grau. Grau is a photographer by training who graduated with an MFA in photography from the Glasgow School of Art, tutored by Thomas Joshua Cooper, and has been a professor in the subject for the last two decades at the most prestigious Universities of Bogota. As a multidisciplinary artist, her practice focuses on the ephemeral and yet permanent imprint of the landscape and the immanency of the elements that inhabit it. Nowadays, we are witnesses of an immersed and compulsively visual culture, reducing our senses to transient, meaningless experiences, and yet, Beatriz Grau, with a 1933 Roleiflex 3.5 in hand, interrupts her peripatetic path to capture images that invite us to witness the disquietness and feelings evoked by the apparent inconspicuous presence of the subjects in them. Her “...photographs do not narrate anything in themselves; they retain the appearance of snapshots, do not have a definitive point of view or a distance that gives way to the illusion of a unifying structure. They are successive layers that overlap and offer a photographic experience; the image does not seek to recall or re-signify, but rather to be the experience.” in her words.
THE DISQUITENESS OF SEEING: Galería Elvira moreno, Bogotá
Past exhibition
