Creative Conversations: Marina Planas and Lynn Silverman
Sunday, March 17 | 12 PM
The Silos at Sawyer Yards, 1502 Sawyer Road
Free and open to the public.
Join us for a lunchtime lecture presentation by two artists featured in the FotoFest Biennial 2024 exhibition, Ten by Ten: Ten Portfolios from the Meeting Place 2022–23. Artist Marina Planas will discuss her installation Warlike Approaches to Tourism: All Inclusive (2020/24), which examines the development of the tourism industry in the Spanish Mediterranean islands through the lens of capitalist colonialism and environmental catastrophe. Silverman will discuss her work In A Matter of Time (2020–), which comprises a series of silver gelatin images that use photographic scrolls as the subject of the images. The images (re)photographed by Silverman are documents captured by school, camp, and event photographers in the U.S. between the 1930s–40s. In her work, Silverman positions the scrolls so that the recto/verso is at once visible and out of view: signatures, faces, timestamps, photographer's notes all on view.
Following their talks, the audience will be invited to participate in a brief Q&A with the artists.
About the Speakers
Marina Planas’s work examines the borders between art and life, reality and visual representation, and fiction and memory. Planas is currently working on projects that focus on postcard production and distribution and the ability to generate narrative fictions and desire through images of tourist utopia. Planas serves as the director of the Casa Planas Centre for Contemporary Research and Culture, where she has initiated the Art Investigation Program, which focuses on contemporary creation through residencies. The goal is to activate Planas Archive and encourage creation through her art practice. In this program she has collaborated with artists including Joan Fontcuberta, Antoni Muntadas, Dora García and Pedro G. Romero.
Her installations, videos and photographs have been presented at Anthology Film Archive (NYC), in the context of the Venice Biennale, at the Centre d'Arts Santa Mónica (BCN), FRAC-Corse (France), at the Museu es Baluard (Palma), Just Mad (Madrid), Frac Córsega, Reina Sofia Library, Longueuil Biennale (Montreal), Galeria Mama (Rotterdam) among others. She has won art investigation scholarships from the governments of the Balearic Islands, Canada and the UK, Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's scholarship for residency at Slade School of Arts, London. Her work has been commissioned by a variety of national and international art institutions. In New York, Planas earned her master's degree studies (Photography, Video & Related Media) at SVA. She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication. In 2019 she was the vice president of the Association of Visual Artists of Balearic Islands.
Lynn Silverman received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and her MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths’ College in London, England. She has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Australia, and the United States. In addition to publishing four books, her work may be found in public and private collections in Australia, Great Britain, and the US. In 2010, Lynn was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the Czech Republic. She is an Emeritus Professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Lynn's work is represented by Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, and Klompching Gallery, New York.
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