Latent Element: 10 Photographers from Latin America

SESC Santana presents, through September 21st, the exhibition Latent Element: 10 Photographers from Latin America, curated by Emily Adams, a show of works by Brazilian, Mexican, and Venezuelan artists: Gustavo Lacerda (Brazil), Carolina Krieger (Brazil), Marlos Bakker (Brazil), Claudia Aréchiga (Mexico), Karina Muench (Mexico), Elena Pastor (Venezuela), Alejandro Cegarra (Venezuela), Rómulo Peña (Venezuela), Stefan Schmeling (Brazil), and Mariza Versiani (Brazil). Latent Element: 10 Photographers from Latin America was initially presented at casa de América, Madrid, as part of the program for the PhotoEspaña 2014 festival. The exhibition puts together works selected from among the 40 participants in a series of portfolio viewings held by PhotoEspaña at São Paulo's SESC Consolaçao and at Centro Cultural Chacao, with the support of the Cultural Affairs office of the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela-AECID and the CIEF in Caracas. The exhibition and the portfolio viewings are intended to present a diversity of artistic proposals, on the basis of works that suggest stories, call out attention to unknown characters, or explore events that often go unnoticed. Visitors to the exhibition will encounter works by: - Gustavo Lacerda: Albinos, where the artist photographs albino individuals in different Brazilian cities, turning the models into protagonists. - Carolina Krieger resents her series El espejo interior, atmospheres where human existence is in contact with nature. - Marlos Bakker is present with Con ese pez sueño, which reflects on automobiles as private places that at the same time exposes their drivers. - News photographer Claudia Arechiga exhibits La Nota, focusing on details of the moments when commissions are assigned in the newspapers for which she works. - Karina Muench proposes a reflection on gender violence with El grito del slencio, portraits of Bolivian women who have suffered physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. - Elena Pastor photographs objects that belonged to her father in Herencia, in order to reflect on topics such as legacy, memory, and familial ties. - In La Torre de David, Alejandro Cegarra presents a report on the everyday life of the denizens of a central Caracas building abandoned in 1994. - Using a pinhole camera, Rómulo Peña's Visiones del agujero portraits the community of Pueblo Llano, in Venezuela, which for three decades had the world's highest suicide rate. - Stefan Schmeling's Cuerpo de Guardia presents a succession of images of private surveillance towers that sprung in Brazilian citizens over the last two decades, proposing a reflection about how feelings of insecurity become a process of social integration and change in public spaces. - In Poética de la vida cotidiana, Mariza Versiani explores the everyday activities of workers in different fields and their relationship to the land. The exhibition will be open to the public at SESC Santana, São Paulo, through September 21st, 2014, and later at the Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía (CAF), in Almeria, Spain.