Join us on Tuesday, September 1, 12:00-1:00 pm CST for online presentation of Patricia Voulgaris and Juan Orrantia’s striking and thought provoking work followed by an engaging conversation led by Natan Dvir, Managing Director of Education at HCP.
Registration is required via this link.
Photography is no longer confined to the single image. As artists continue to challenge the boundaries of the medium, the photograph can become a starting point for exploring questions of memory, identity, history, and representation. The practices of Patricia Voulgaris and Juan Orrantia demonstrate how photography can expand beyond its conventional forms, becoming a space for experimentation, construction, and critical inquiry.
How can photography challenge the visual and cognitive experience? What possibilities and opportunities do color or monochrome photography offer image makers? Where does photography end and other forms of visual art begin? Led by Natan Dvir, this conversation will explore the possibilities of the expanded photographic image, considering how artists can push beyond the boundaries of the medium.
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Patricia Voulgaris iis an artist from New York who graduated with an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2024 and holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited and featured in publications such as New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine. Voulgaris has participated in residencies at Yaddo, the Brooklyn Darkroom Traveling Residency and Baxter Street, and has received grants from the Lucie Foundation and the Aaron Siskind Foundation.
Juan Orrantia is a photographer, artist, academic and educator. His practice articulates photography, appropriation and academic research to interrogate historical narratives and experiences of looking and being seen. Born and raised in Colombia, and having spent much of his adult life in South Africa, his work builds on experiences of dislocation, postcoloniality and questions of representation developed through expanded photographic approaches related to color, archives and the photobook.