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Slice Viewer, 2014 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
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
Installation view Previous/Next. Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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
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
Rolled, 2014 Nine unique photographic prints 12 x 9 x 2 in. / 30.5 x 22.9 x 5.1
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
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
Infinite Rewrite I, 2014 Unique analogue C-print 11 x 9 x 3 in. / 27.9 x 22.9 x 7.6 cm
Installation view Previous/Next. Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Please Excuse Our Mess, 2014 (side view) Unique photographic C-prints, black walnut 8 x 10 x 5.7 in. / 20.3 x 25.4 x 14.5 cm
Overhead Projection, 2014 Unique pigment print on transparency material 20 x 16 in. / 50.8 x 40.6 cm
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
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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.