Momentum Gallery Miami is pleased to exhibit works from an international group of artists, featuring: Aapo Huhta - Finland , Yvonne Venegas - Mexico, Eiji Ohashi – Japan,
Ole Marius Joergensen - Norway
Each artist’s photography will be accompanied with a corresponding monograph.
Aapo Huhta includes a selection from Omatandangole, a series shot in the Namibian desert between 2016-2018. Omatandangole is made up of high-contrast black and white images, interspersed with a few color images. Rather than a purely descriptive record of what the country looks like, the works are rich with symbolism.
In addition, Huhta exhibits works from the dystopian series, Block, a photographic essay amassed as a set of visions, offering hints for storylines in a murky, dystopic scene of the city witnessed by a stranger.
Yvonne Venegas’ series The Pencil of Nature aims to create a space to remember the history of portraits of women through the lens of male photographers. In the series, Venegas directs women to imitate and mimic the same poses that were earlier choreographed by artists such as Araki, Helmut Newton, and Blumenfeld. Venegas sought to learn something new that she had not previously understood, and to reinterpret these images.
Eiji Ohashi exhibits work from his critically acclaimed photographic series, Roadside Lights, of vending machines along roads throughout Japan. “The vending machines placed all over the country are a symbolic image of today’s Japan, and their lonely, daily work is reminiscent of the modern lives of us humans. In this sense, my series is a conscious reflection of its era, but it is also an expression of my own personal aesthetic sensibilities,” says Ohashi.The artist will be present for a book signing on Friday, April 26 at 2pm at Momentum booth C30.
A return exhibitor to The Photography Show, Ole Marius Joergensen will debut two works from his latest esoteric landscape series, A long forgotten nocturne
