Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association

Women Who Make a Better IberoAmerica: Power Behind the Everyday

November 2 – December 16, 2018

Presented in partnership with the Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association (AACIA), this exhibition features work by contemporary photographers from 14 countries across Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. The work shows how women contribute to the cultural, economic, scientific, educational, social, and inclusive development of their countries, often provoking positive social changes, continuity of traditions, and social values.

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The Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association (AACIA) has the mission to promote, disseminate, and preserve the heritage, culture, and art of Ibero-America in the Washington DC area, while working actively to build bridges between Latin America, Portugal, Spain, and the United States. This mission is achieved by touching a wide and varied audience through cultural activities and media outreach.

Calla Kessler

Erin Schaff

Nora Lorek

Sarah Silbiger

WPOW 12th Annual Juried Exhibition

November 2 – December 16, 2018

The WPOW 12th Annual Juried Exhibition featured standout photography and multimedia pieces by members of the Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) from the past year, chosen by three jurors: Magnum Nominee Sim Chi Yin, an award-winning photojournalist, Danese Kenon, the Deputy Director of Photography for Video/Multimedia at the Tampa Bay Times, and Nicole Werbeck, Supervising Editor for Photography at NPR.

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Featured Artists
Carol Guzy
Calla Kessler
Caroline Lacy
Dana Rene Bowler
Kara Frame
Evelyn Hockstein
Ashleigh Joplin
Erika Nizborski
Erin Schaff
Ellie Van Houtte
Leigh Vogel
Leah Millis
Melina Mara
Nora Lorek
Sarah Silbiger
Toya Sarno Jordan

womenphotojournalists.org

Disenchanted

November 2 – December 16, 2018

Disenchanted is a rumination on the process of death and its lingering aftermath. Jencso’s family grieved the loss of two people and suffered the emotional fallout from decaying family bonds. This series is an intimate yet voyeuristic study of presence and loss—a melancholy that loomed over the family for years. These photos find moments in time that express the sorrow, beauty, frustration, and disappointment of moving forward and being left behind.

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Kaitlin Jencso is a photographer who lives and works in Washington, DC. Jencso explores the emotional terrain of ever-expanding and evolving relationships through loss, ephemera, bloodlines, and the land. Her photographs of the habitual moments in our everyday capture and communicate insular experiences. Kaitlin graduated with a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2012. She won Best Fine Art Series at FotoWeek DC in both 2014 and 2016 and received the Award of Merit in the 2014 Focal Point show at the Maryland Federation of Art.

www.kaitlinjencso.com

Scrutinearsighted

October 5 – October 28, 2018

Informed by the incomprehensibility of the US Presidential election and what ultimately became the UK’s “Brexit” referendum, Scrutinearsighted combines the notion of the “scrutineer,” an official appointed to ensure that various competitions’ rules and regulations are met by their combatants, with the condition of “nearsightedness” or myopia where the eye can focus upon nearby subjects but blurs when greater distances are observed.  The adjacently installed works form an unstable and unpredictable continuum where the imagery seems to spill from surface to surface before abruptly shifting tone and direction as it offers divergent and dissenting perspectives. Resembling a corrupted tableau, a tattered scroll or a violently undulating graph, the installation wraps around the space, enveloping the viewer and situating them within an unfolding incident. The installation’s unpredictable mix of drawing, painting and textual components provides audiences with a complex and condensed view of this contemporary predicament. The imagery’s palette (a black, white and grey tonal range) is used to invoke both the extremes of opinion and action and all the ambiguous and ambivalent compromises and equivocations that are part of contemporary life. This installation format offers its audience a paradox echoing the project’s title—the details of various struggles are visible up-close but obscured as one tries to view the series’ full breadth.

Mare Nostra

October 5 – October 28 2018

Andrea is an artist and city planner born in Rome, Italy and based in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington, DC. Andrea’s work explores issues of migration and identity, the fleeting concepts of home and safety, nationalistic narratives, and gun violence in the US. Mare Nostrvm (Our Sea) is organized chronologically to tell the story of one imaginary migrant from her life in her native home, war, escape, voyage, and arrival to destination.