"Sobreexposición"

"Overexposure" (Sobreexposición) is a proposal that reflects on the saturation of portraits and self-portraits in the contemporary world, in realms that range from commercial advertising to social networks, and in the art world too. The exhibition will open on May 15 at the Sala de Fotografía of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) in Santiago, Chile. Curated by Juan José Santos, the group exhibition includes the participation of nine artists with different backgrounds and unique approaches to the subject of "after photography," a concept proposed by theoretician Fred Ritchin to describe a period in which photographs no longer refer to anything else but themselves. The proposals include: the interactive application by Piotr Wyrzykowski (Poland); the photographic work centered on a public sculpture, La Victoria (Victory) in Talca, by Luis Montes (Chile); the exploration of the use of selfies in contexts such as accidents, funerals, and concentration camps by journalist and writer Jason Feifer (US); the "moving photography" before a mirror by Elina Brotherus (Finland); the genre-based approach by Rocío Verdejo (Spain); the installation by Rafa Semdín (Spain) that uses portraits of mannequins to convey the tension between digital and analog photography; the found footage videos by Gerard Freixes and Irene Coll-Inglés (both from Spain); and the reflections on the repetition, saturation and the loss of meaning of images by researcher and artist Iraida Lombardía (Spain). "Individualism and egocentrism are at the core of the priorities that we establish in the contemporary world and help to explain the saturation of portraits and self-portraits," pointed out curator Juan José Santos about an exhibition that in general terms alludes to our virtual images. For more information visit: www.mac.uchile.cl