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Critical Geography


March 09 - April 21,2024

Note: Tickets for this event can be found here. From Fotofest: "The FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition, Critical Geography, reexamines traditional Western and historical understandings of geography while expanding these investigations to new realms. Borrowing its name from the subdiscipline of geography that questions and challenges power structures, inequality, and the dominant ideologies shaping physical space, Critical Geography explores how space, place, and communities are influenced by social, economic, ecological, and political forces. By critically analyzing these dynamics, the works in the exhibition provoke conversations around social justice, environmental sustainability, and transformative change. “Our intent is that the 2024 Biennial, featuring both existing and newly commissioned works from local and international artists, will allow viewers to engage in important dialogues around the social dimensions of space and our shared planet,” says Steven Evans, Executive Director of FotoFest. “We look forward to once again celebrating Houston’s vibrant art and photo community while embracing these new perspectives around place-making, the image, and geography.” Critical Geography features a diverse range of image-based practices, representing artists from photographers and storytellers whose works shed light on systemic oppression, violence, and urgent environmental concerns to image-makers who appropriate mapping, social media, and technology in order to explore inequality in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The exhibition highlights a range of unorthodox strategies employed to construct new narratives around place and community while imagining alternative organizations of social space. The Biennial exhibition includes several site-specific works and new commissions by FotoFest.
The artists and collectives featured in the FotoFest Biennial 2024 central exhibition include:
Mónica Alcázar-Duarte Syahrul Anuar Adrian L. Burrell Hyun-taek Cho Binh Danh Colby Deal Ana Teresa Fernández Caleb Fung Joe Harjo Shona Illingworth Libuše Jarcovjáková Ethel Lilienfeld
Mark Menjívar with Jack Yates High School students Zarina Muhammad Ou Zhihang Phillip Pyle II Shilo Group - Vlad Krasnoschok and Sergiy Lebedynskyy Siu Wai Hang C. Rose Smith Sao Sreymao Stephanie Syjuco Brad Temkin Rafael Vilela
The FotoFest Biennial 2024 takes place in Houston from March 9 to April 21, 2024, at Sawyer Yards and venues city-wide. The exhibition is organized by Steven Evans, executive director, with support from the FotoFest staff.

FOTOFEST BIENNIAL 2024 SPONSORS

MAJOR INSTITUTIONAL, CORPORATE, AND INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT Houston Endowment, The Brown Foundation, Inc., National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, IKE Smart City, Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation, The Powell Foundation, MPB.com, Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation, The Susan Vaughan Foundation, The Wortham Foundation, Etant donnés Contemporary Art - a program of Villa Albertine, WWW Foundation, Judith and Gamble Baldwin, Wendy Watriss and Frederick Baldwin, FotoFest Board of Directors, contributors to the FotoFest Annual Fund, and donors who wish to remain anonymous."

Reception: March 09, 2024 | 8-11 pm

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