Once More, With Feeling:
Recent Photography from Colombia
Discover the work of six artists who explore themes of memory, repetition and performance.
This major international exhibition of photography and video work brings together both emerging and established artists rarely seen in the UK. Whilst their approaches are diverse, all suggest the notion ‘once more, with feeling’: an action repeated, remembered or re-visited.
Juan Pablo Echeverri goes to a passport photo booth every day, and has accumulated over seven years worth of self-portraits. María Elvira Escallón revisits the harrowing aftermath of a bomb in the Colombian capital of Bogotá. Oscar Muñoz brings to life a forgotten archive of photographs depicting life in the city of Cali in the fifties, sixties and seventies. María Isabel Rueda documents the culture of Colombia’s Goth scene. Milena Bonilla anonymously sews the torn seats of buses whilst traveling in the city. Juan Manuel Echavarría records the songs composed by country dwellers displaced by guerrilla violence.
All of the works have been made in the last few years and most have not been shown in the UK before.
Once More, With Feeling is curated by Pippa Oldfield and Camilla Brown. It is a touring exhibition and joint collaboration by Impressions Gallery, Bradford, and The Photographers’ Gallery, London. Funded by The National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Meet the Curator: Pippa Oldfield
Running time: 10 minutes
Directed by Anne McNeill. Filmed and edited by Sarabjit Kohli.
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With an extensive biographical and resource section, this book provides a valuable starting point for anyone wishing to find out more about the contemporary photography scene in Colombia.
Features an essay on the exhibition by co-curators Camilla Brown and Pippa Oldfield, plus specially commissioned essays by Jaime Ceron, Pippa Oldfield and Santiago Rueda Farjado exploring the wider context of photography in Colombia.
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