LORENA GUILLEN VASCHETTI & NORMA VASCHETTI
August 29 to September 23, 2012
Ampersand is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Lorena Guillen Vaschetti & paintings by her mother, Norma Vaschetti, both of whom live & work in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lorena's recent body of work, Historia, memoria y silencios, investigates what truths from our past are revealed or hidden within photographic documents, in this case a series of family slides that were all but lost in 2009. "My mother & I are the only members left of a big Italian family," writes Lorena, "Convinced that she was lifting the heavy weight of the family past off my shoulders, she called me to let me know that she had thrown away all the family slides." Lorena was able to recover only one box from the many that had been discarded. Examining the photographs from her own perspective, she re-photogtraphed select slides from a depth of field that leaves portions out of focus & the faces of her family members blurred. The resulting dreamlike, mysterious quality is heightened by Lorena's photographs of packs of slides & film canisters she chose not to open, leaving concealed the family secrets bound inside these photographic artifacts. Released as a lovely first monograph in early 2012 by Schilt Publishing, Historia, memoria y silencios was chosen as one of the best photobooks of the year by PDN & Photo España 2012. The current show at Ampersand thus investigates not only the relationship between photographs exhibited on a wall versus those printed in a book, it also focuses on the relationship between a mother & daughter, both of whom as artists have recently been exploring nuances of the past. Dreamlike in their own way, Norma Vaschetti's landscapes compel us to look beyond horizon lines or follow pathways into uncertain backgrounds. In this, they are metaphors for a journey we all must take, stepping backward into an unknown past or drifting forward into a family's future that, in this case, ends with a mother & daughter.
Radio interview with both artists here >
UNOPENED - SIN ABRIR
The slides? They were my grandfather’s – intriguing family pictures that were almost lost… Everyone looked so different from how I remembered them… so happy! As if the past had not been as I imagined. How different is my idea of the past from how the past actually was? The slides were in a sand- colored box. Some were loose, others wrapped in small packages. I decided to keep these unopened and with them I write and rewrite my own story.
-Lorena Guillen Vaschetti.
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HISTORY, MEMORY & SILENCE - HISTORIA, MEMORIA Y SILENCIOS
Untitled 001
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NORMA VASCHETTI
El circulo de la vida
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El que gana pierde
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La silla roja
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Paisaje de mi ninez
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Burma
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Siempre hay una salida
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