Join us on Saturday, August 31, 2024, from 2-4 pm for Nueva Luz: Open to Discussion, to the hear about the artists' processes, experiences, and challenges using the Nueva Luz Digital Archives to create original projects. Capacity is limited! Please RSVP early to secure a ticket, if you RSVP and can not attend, please contact us at info@enfoco.org.
Nueva Luz: Open To Interpretation, features the commissioned work of Shiloah Symone Coley, Lisa Dubois, and Collaborating artists Rejin Leys and Thiago Szmrecsányi. Organized by New York-based curator and arts planner Jennifer McGregor.
Last year, En Foco introduced the Nueva Luz Study Center Commissioning Fund and embarked on a new initiative to commission three artists to create new work and extend their practice using the Nueva Luz as a catalyst to explore historical contexts, artists, and themes from a contemporary point of view. Three projects were identified through an open competition.
In these projects, Nueva Luz becomes a window to the past that invites personal investigation in real-time. Through research and engagement, the artists embarked on journeys prompted by their own practice and interest. Coley invites three contemporary New Yorkers to reflect on the images by photographers in the 1980s which is a springboard for animation. Dubois takes the work of one artist from 2000 to launch her inquiry about how gentrification in Harlem is echoed through her own experience. Leys and Szmrecsányi explore multiple magazine issues to re-imagine the presence of the artists’ spaces in the photos presented since 1985. The artists create an installation that narrates their process and findings.
Nueva Luz: Open To Interpretation, features the commissioned work of Shiloah Symone Coley, Lisa Dubois, and Collaborating artists Rejin Leys and Thiago Szmrecsányi. Organized by New York-based curator and arts planner Jennifer McGregor.
Last year, En Foco introduced the Nueva Luz Study Center Commissioning Fund and embarked on a new initiative to commission three artists to create new work and extend their practice using the Nueva Luz as a catalyst to explore historical contexts, artists, and themes from a contemporary point of view. Three projects were identified through an open competition.
In these projects, Nueva Luz becomes a window to the past that invites personal investigation in real-time. Through research and engagement, the artists embarked on journeys prompted by their own practice and interest. Coley invites three contemporary New Yorkers to reflect on the images by photographers in the 1980s which is a springboard for animation. Dubois takes the work of one artist from 2000 to launch her inquiry about how gentrification in Harlem is echoed through her own experience. Leys and Szmrecsányi explore multiple magazine issues to re-imagine the presence of the artists’ spaces in the photos presented since 1985. The artists create an installation that narrates their process and findings.
