ExhibitionMay 24, 2023
“Juan Pablo Echeverri: Identidad Perdida” (Lost Identity) at Between Bridges
Colombian artist Juan Pablo Echeverri's exhibition "Juan Pablo Echeverri: Identidad Perdida” (Lost Identity) is on view at Between Bridges, Berlin through April 29 and at James Fuentes, New York, from June 7 to July 29.
Curated by Wolfgang Tillmans, along with a close friend of the artist and his family, the work of the artist's last three decades is on view. The show is intended as a tribute to the artist, who died suddenly last year from malaria, and as a way to make his work known in other spaces. The curator describes Echeverri's work as "an oeuvre that has not received its deserved attention, given its importance and innovation."
The main series, Miss Fotojapón, is a collection of more than 8,000 self-portraits taken every day in a passport photo booth between 1998 and 2022. Some of the photographs show Echeverri in costume or personifying a character, others appear to be just part of a routine or reveal an outfit he wore 10 years earlier in another photograph. In a way, this series becomes a narrative about the phases of a person, through a crude and complex approach such as a passport photograph. The exhibition includes other series such as: MUTILady (2003), futuroSEXtraños (2016), MascuLady (2006), Around the World in 80 Grays (2017-2015). In this way, the advances in communication, visual culture, consumer culture and the image as a political expression are blended.
Curated by Wolfgang Tillmans, along with a close friend of the artist and his family, the work of the artist's last three decades is on view. The show is intended as a tribute to the artist, who died suddenly last year from malaria, and as a way to make his work known in other spaces. The curator describes Echeverri's work as "an oeuvre that has not received its deserved attention, given its importance and innovation."
The main series, Miss Fotojapón, is a collection of more than 8,000 self-portraits taken every day in a passport photo booth between 1998 and 2022. Some of the photographs show Echeverri in costume or personifying a character, others appear to be just part of a routine or reveal an outfit he wore 10 years earlier in another photograph. In a way, this series becomes a narrative about the phases of a person, through a crude and complex approach such as a passport photograph. The exhibition includes other series such as: MUTILady (2003), futuroSEXtraños (2016), MascuLady (2006), Around the World in 80 Grays (2017-2015). In this way, the advances in communication, visual culture, consumer culture and the image as a political expression are blended.
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