Josephine Sacabo
#Photographe
- Exposition
Exhibition : « Juana and the Structures of Reverie » by Josephine Sacabo
I believe in Art as a means of transcendence and connection. My images are simply what I've made from what I have been given. I hope they have done justice to their sources and that they will, for a moment, ‘stay the shadows of contentment too short lived.'
-Josephine Sacabo
Josephine divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico. Both places inform her work, resulting in imagery that is as dreamlike, surreal and romantic as the places that she calls home.
Born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, Josephine was educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to moving to New Orleans, she lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photojournalistic tradition and was influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective, introspe... - Exposition
Exposition : Salutations
NOMA premiers the newest body of work by Josephine Sacabo (American, b. 1944). In Salutations, Sacabo combines collaged and distorted photographic images with a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century to create a world that is barely recognizable as such, hovering like a memory or a dream in the space between the concrete and the ineffable. Throughout the work, half-materialized visions of certain elements appear and reappear an apple, a bird, a window, the female form as if to suggest some kind of narrative is buried under the layers of fractured representation.
© Josephine Sacabo
But the project as a whole resists any linear reading, and instead concerns itself with establishing an enigmatic set of conditions loss, solitude, melancholy, nostalgia, etc. that create a space for i...
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I believe in Art as a means of transcendence and connection. My images are simply what I've made from what I have been given. I hope they have done justice to their sources and that they will, for a moment, ‘stay the shadows of contentment too short lived.'
-Josephine Sacabo
Josephine divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico. Both places inform her work, resulting in imagery that is as dreamlike, surreal and romantic as the places that she calls home.
Born in Laredo, Texas, in 1944, Josephine was educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to moving to New Orleans, she lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photojournalistic tradition and was influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective, introspe...
NOMA premiers the newest body of work by Josephine Sacabo (American, b. 1944). In Salutations, Sacabo combines collaged and distorted photographic images with a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century to create a world that is barely recognizable as such, hovering like a memory or a dream in the space between the concrete and the ineffable. Throughout the work, half-materialized visions of certain elements appear and reappear an apple, a bird, a window, the female form as if to suggest some kind of narrative is buried under the layers of fractured representation.
© Josephine Sacabo
But the project as a whole resists any linear reading, and instead concerns itself with establishing an enigmatic set of conditions loss, solitude, melancholy, nostalgia, etc. that create a space for i...