Imagined futures
By: Rafael Soldi
Contributors: Candor Arts (Chicago, Ill.)
Edition: Special edition.
Publisher: Candor Arts
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781950615018
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Psychological aspects; Artistic Photography
Other titles: Futuros imaginarios.
Notes: Edition of 200 signed and numbered copies

Text in English and Spanish.

Blind-Debossed clamshell box wrapped in Japanese Two-Tone Gold/Cool Blue fabric containing a tipped-in print, introductionby Rafael Soldi, a set of 50 gloss-varnished prints, and a supporting booklet.

Imagined Futures addresses a concern universal to most immigrants. How do we grieve the life we left behind in order to live this one? What do we do with these haunting visions and questions about the lives we left behind? For two years I used analog photo booths to capture the loss of imagined futures, bidding each farewell in a private ritual. Akin to a confessional, the booths are both witness and complicit in each performance--a small stage for a monumental performance that is private and public all at once. Releasing all formal control, each booth yields a unique image, transforming from a simple picture-making apparatus into a collaborator that makes a likeness of a body mourning in its belly.

Essay by Miguel A. Lopez, with translation by Tony Beckwith.

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