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Artwork details
- Printing : Digital on Paper
- Framing : Framing on request
- Dimensions : 13.5x19.5in
About this artwork
Elevated train on Broadway. Bushwick.
For the past two years I have been photographing a new generation of artists, spectators and performers that have now moved to the borders of Bushwick and beyond to find their own safe space, leaving Williamsburg behind as a creative space.My ongoing project became my road to understanding a generation that has the desire to change the power balance by a transforming attitude of direct intervention on reality,… giving more importance to creation and participation and not so much on the finished product. I found a common cord between performers and spectators -These artists and the people that were sharing their experiences were veering toward the extremes to provoke themselves (and their audience) to confront sexual and visual ways of participation by challenging social norms.
For the past two years I have been photographing a new generation of artists, spectators and performers that have now moved to the borders of Bushwick and beyond to find their own safe space, leaving Williamsburg behind as a creative space.My ongoing project became my road to understanding a generation that has the desire to change the power balance by a transforming attitude of direct intervention on reality,… giving more importance to creation and participation and not so much on the finished product. I found a common cord between performers and spectators -These artists and the people that were sharing their experiences were veering toward the extremes to provoke themselves (and their audience) to confront sexual and visual ways of participation by challenging social norms.
Mara Catalan
Spain
Credentials
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
« A photo is a voice that sleeps deep inside of me and is a way to capture something inside of myself. »
Mara Catalan is a photographer based in the United States who has exhibited her art nationally, as well as in Estonia, Spain, Cuba, and Switzerland. Her artistic expression most often speaks of the world her. Catalan's pieces are "part diary, part autobiography, and part personal documentary". She most often photographs using black and white film, employing various cameras, depending on her subject. For her, the work isn't completed until she prints it out in the darkroom.