IN MY MIND'S EYE: PART THREE | JOSE LUIS GARCIA
April 19, 2018 - August 16, 2018
Miami Beach Urban Studios
As the third and final solo exhibition of the series, FIU MFA ’18 candidate, Jose Luis Garcia explores memory through archive. Garcia particularly engages with the vernacular photograph, which depicts scenes from his own familiar archive of holidays, vacations, summer outings, school pictures, and portraits. Garcia often uses repetition in his practice, revealing the passage of time and the way that it can change our memory of people and places. In his Sentiment Series, the artist uses pre-existing imagery and interrupts them, much like the process of memory recall. With each scan or transfer, the photograph becomes a little more blurred, buried, distorted, or hidden.
In No Place Like Home and Buried Snapshots, Garcia purposefully hand paints acrylic onto portions of a photograph akin to the effect of correction fluid. These deletions abruptly expose the strong ties between memory—or one’s interpretation of memory—and personal identity.
“Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.” – Nan Goldin
