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Artist Talk: Adam Marnie and Aura Rosenberg

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Artists Adam Marnie and Aura Rosenberg join FotoFest Associate Curator Max Fields for a discussion focused on the artist’s history of collaboration and their work A Photo A Day, October 9, 2016 — October 10, 2017 (2021), which is featured in FotoFest’s current exhibition, In Place of an Index.  A Photo A Day is a sequential set of 367 photographic diptychs by artists Adam Marnie and Aura Rosenberg taken over the course of one year and two days. From October 9, 2016 to October 10, 2017, Marnie and Rosenberg documented the passage of time through an email correspondence consisting of a single photograph by each artist sent each day, supported by little to no explanatory text. This work is one of a number of artistic collaborations by Marnie and Rosenberg. 

About the artists

Adam Marnie (b. 1977, Minneapolis, MN, lives and works in Houston, Texas). Recent exhibitions of his work include: New Constructions, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, Dragon Polishes the Pearl, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, and Construction/ Destruction, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. He is publisher and editor-in-chief of F Magazine, a biannual self-published art magazine based in Los Angeles, Houston, and New York, a project around which he has organized group exhibitions such as The Garden of Forking Paths at Magenta Plains, New York.

 

Aura Rosenberg received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA from Hunter College, NY as well as attending the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Rosenberg’s work probes sexuality, gender, childhood, artistic identity and historical construction.  Her diverse practice draws on photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation and performance.  

She has published three books of photographs. Head Shots, (StopOver Press 1996) is a series of black/white portraits that examines men seemingly caught in a moment of ecstasy. Berlin Childhood (Steidl/DAAD 2001) is inspired by Walter Benjamin’s chronicle of a bourgeois upbringing in Berlin at the turn of the last century; it reconsiders the people and places Benjamin wrote about from a present-day perspective. Who Am I? What Am I? Where Am I ? (Hatje Cantz 2006) features a series of children’s portraits, each made in collaboration with another artist. Rosenberg is also a member of the art rock bands The Dirty Mirrors and The Cornichons who have performed in such venues as The Rubell Family Collection, Miami and the Palazzo Grassi, Venice.

Rosenberg’s work has been exhibited at, among others, the Kiev Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Lehnbachhaus, Munich, Le Magasin / Centre D’art Contemporain, Grenoble, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Institute of Contemporary Art / ICA, Philadelphia, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin, MAMCO / Musee d'art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, The Swiss Institute, New York; The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, JOAN, Los Angeles and Galeria Studio, Warsaw.  

Recently her work has been featured in the exhibitions Ecstasy at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart which travelled to the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, Straying From The Line, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, Face It! In the Soliloquy With The Other at the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany and Up To And Including Limits at the Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland.

Rosenberg lives in New York City and Berlin. She is represented by Meliksetian | Briggs in Los Angeles and Martos Gallery in New York City and teaches at Pratt Institute and The School of Visual Arts, New York.

Image: Installation view of Adam Marnie and Aura Rosenberg, A Photo A Day, October 9, 2016 — October 10, 2017, 2021, in the exhibition In Place of an Index at FotoFest. September 2–November 13, 2021. Presented in conjunction with the Texas Biennial 2021, A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon. Photo courtesy of FotoFest.