{"id":593784,"date":"2024-04-22T23:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T23:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_event&p=593784"},"modified":"2024-04-25T23:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:07:28","slug":"opening-passages-gallery-talk-at-the-chicago-cultural-center","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/opening-passages-gallery-talk-at-the-chicago-cultural-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Passages : Gallery Talk at the Chicago Cultural Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Curators Carl Fuldner<\/strong> and Pascal Beausse <\/strong>(Cnap) will host a conversation between Jonathan Michael<\/strong> Castillo, Gilberto G\u00fciza-Rojas, Tonika Lewis Johnson, Karim Kal<\/strong> and Marion Poussier<\/strong>. The discussion will focus on documentary strategies for representing communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This multi-site photographic exhibition brings together ten series by French and American photographers that survey the dynamic social landscapes of Chicago and Paris. It is produced by Villa Albertine<\/strong> and its City\/Cit\u00e9<\/em> program and is part of Art Design Chicago<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/strong>, a citywide collaboration initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art<\/strong> that highlights the city\u2019s artistic heritage and creative communities.
Since 2021, the Paris-Chicago dialogue has been flourishing under the umbrella of Clichycago<\/strong>: a platform for community-based cultural exchange and artistic experimentation, with the support of the Ateliers M\u00e9dicis in Clichy-sous-Bois \/ Montfermeil (France) and Villa Albertine in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carl Fuldner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carl Fuldner is a Chicago-based art historian and curator whose work engages photography’s role in shaping environmental perspectives. He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago, where he also currently teaches as an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Master of Art Program in the Humanities and the Department of Art History. He is also a co-editor of The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media<\/em>, published in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pascal Beausse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pascal Beausse is Head of the photography collection at the Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris). With Anna Labouze, Keimis Henni and Cl\u00e9ment Postec, he curated the Regards du Grand Paris exhibition in 2022, presenting the works of 38 photographers who were laureates of the eponymous photographic commission launched in 2016, with the aim of building up, year after year, a corpus of images and authors\u2019 views on the evolution of the Greater Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Michael Castillo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recipient in 2023 of the Chicagoland Seen grant commission funded by the Chicago chapter of the Albertine Foundation, Jonathan Michael Castillo is a visual artist based in Chicago whose projects focus on people, place and social issues.  He is a former Diane Dammeyer Fellow in Photographic Arts and Social Issues, was included in the 2021 Hyde Park Art Center’s Ground Floor Biennial and recently commissioned by the City of Chicago to create a permanent installation of his work at O\u2019Hare International Airport.  His work has been featured with The New Yorker, Wired, The Chicago Tribune and CBS: Los Angeles. He has discussed his photography on the BBC’s \u201cWorld Update\u201d and Los Angeles public radio programs KPCC and KCRW.  Exhibitions include those at the Art Institute Chicago, Photo LA 2020 and the Center for Creative Photography.
Since 2017, he has been traversing Chicago and its suburbs, photographing the interiors of immigrant-owned shops and the people who run them. His series Immigrant Owned <\/em>presents a unique cross-section of Chicago\u2019s diverse neighborhoods visualized through an eclectic mix of businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yuzhen, Yummy Yummy Noodles, Chicago (Chinatown)<\/em>, series Immigrant Owned<\/em>, 2022 \u00a9<\/em> Jonathan Michael Castillo<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Gilberto G\u00fciza-Rojas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilberto G\u00fciza-Rojas is a Colombian Visual Artist based in Paris. He addresses societal challenges such as job invisibility and deteriorating working conditions, using allegory and performance to reflect on the contemporary world of work. He was awarded the 2021 Contemporary Documentary Photography Support Grant from the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) and the 2018 National Photographic Commission of the Regards du Grand Paris<\/em>, led by Ateliers M\u00e9dicis and Cnap.
In his series\u00a0Territoire-Travail\u00a0<\/em>[Territory-Work<\/em>], workers perform an idealized vision of manual labor superimposed against remote urban backdrops, representing what he calls \u201cgestures of insertion.\u201d Through these staged performances, individuals re-enact gestures tied to their former occupations against transformed settings, hinting at the vestiges of their former lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Afpa, responsable d\u2019entreprise de transport, <\/em>s\u00e9rie Territoire Travail<\/em> [Afpa, Transportation Manager, <\/em>series Territory-work<\/em>], 2018, \u00a9Gilberto G\u00fciza-Rojas<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Tonika Lewis Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023 laureate of the national photographic commission Regards du Grand Paris,<\/em> led by the Ateliers M\u00e9dicis in collaboration with the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Tonika Johnson is a photographer and social justice artist from Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. She explores urban segregation and challenges media portrayals of violence in the city through her art. Recognized citywide in recent years, she was named the National Public Housing Museum’s 2021 Artist as Instigator, currently working on her project Inequity for Sale,<\/em> highlighting the historical context of Greater Englewood homes sold through Land Sale Contracts in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, Johnson posed a question to teenagers of color on Chicago’s South Side: “Where have you felt you didn’t belong?” She photographed them in those places and recorded their stories. When invited to a residency in Clichy-sous-Bois by Ateliers M\u00e9dicis, she expanded her Belonging <\/em>series into a transatlantic conversation about racial divisions in urban areas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Jason, Hyde Park, Chicago, 18, <\/em>series Belonging<\/em>,<\/em> 2019 \u00a9<\/em>Tonika Lewis Johnson<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Karim Kal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2017 laureate of the national photographic commission Regards du Grand Paris<\/em>, led by the Ateliers M\u00e9dicis in collaboration with the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), Karim Kal was trained at the Grenoble School of Fine Arts. He initially focused on portrait photography before shifting to capturing public spaces, particularly at night. However, human presence remains central in his work, which revolves around the imprints left by culture and history. His pieces have been included in the collections of the National Fund for Contemporary Art, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Etienne Metropolis (MAMC+), FRAC Auvergne, and the National Museum of the History of Immigration. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Henri Cartier Bresson photography prize.
With “Ligne D\u00e9e<\/em><\/strong> [Dee Line<\/em>], he critically examines areas left behind by the great urbanist and political projects of the past. Despite the apparent emptiness within the images, the objects and visual elements that are present offer clues to socio-economic tensions and to the life that permeates this landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le squelette [The Squeleton], 2017 (c)Karim Kal<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Marion Poussier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marion Poussier graduated from the \u00c9cole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure Louis Lumi\u00e8re, she is represented by Galerie du Jour agn\u00e8s b. Her photographs have been exhibited in France and abroad. In 2006, she was awarded the Lucien and Rodolf Herv\u00e9 prize for her series Un \u00e9t\u00e9<\/em>, that was exhibited the same year at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (Arles) and joined various prestigious public and private collections. Marion Poussier was awarded the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux Arts prize for her family series, which is the subject of a new monograph published by Editions Filigranes. In 2021 she was a laureate of the national photographic commission Regards du Grand Paris<\/em> initiated by the Cnap and Ateliers M\u00e9diciswith her series On est l\u00e0<\/em>. That same year, the H\u00f4tel Fontfreyde – center for photography in Clermont-Ferrand hosted a retrospective of her work entitled Un chant d’amour<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her On est l\u00e0 series<\/em>, she focuses on the various redevelopment programs for the banks of the Saint-Denis canal, capturing a form of bodily resistance in these spaces subjected to a process of rationalization.
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Simona, Aubervilliers,<\/em> s\u00e9rie On est l\u00e0<\/em>, [We are here<\/em>], 2021 \u00a9<\/em>Marion Poussier<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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