Cannon Bernáldez At Paris Photo 2019

CANNON BERNÁLDEZ

ESPACIOS DE REFLEXIÓN Y FANTASÍA Curated by Emma Cecilia García Krisnky

El Azul Project Thanks to FONCA (Mexican National Creators System) grant, Cannon Bernรกldez could develop this project, that goes deep into the case of the many disappearances that have occurred in Mexico during the last ten years.

Through a very wide and tough investigation, the artist interviewed collectives, Human Rights defendants and journalists working in that field, to get first hand information about what and why was really happening. With the revealing pieces that she developped, Cannon Bernรกldez aims to make the viewer understand and concern about the difficult and strange times Mexico is living right now.

This research, this artistic process has become part of the project itself: we see the documents, the logs, the actual files. Cannon also discourses about the real meaning and use of Photography in this series: her tools are light, chemicals, paper, but also memory, copyright and the Internet. All these aspects are reflected in these unique pieces.

Cannon Bernรกldez Perder la cabeza 2017 Silver Gelatin Print 123 x 109 cm

Cannon Bernรกldez Hombre Azul 2019 Cyanotype 78 x 85 cm

Cannon Bernรกldez El Azul 2016 Cyanotype 120 x 120 cm

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Cannon Bernรกldez Untitled, El Azul series 2018 Cyanotype 10 x 15 cm

Cannon Bernáldez, Mexico, 1974.

Mexico City born and raised, Graduate in Journalism with a Master in Arts, Cannon has complemented her artistic formation with photography and cinematography criticism courses and workshops. Her work has been presented in galleries and cultural centers in Mexico, the United States, Russia, Peru and France.

Winner of the 12th Biennial of Photography in 2006, she has obtained the FONCA’s Jóvenes Creadores grant two times, the Award Fundación Cultural Omnilife in 2001. In her individual expositions we can highlight the Gallery of the French Alliance, San Ángel in 2003; Images du Pole, Orleáns, France (2004); Nacho López Pachuca’s Photo Library in 2005. Her work belongs to the collection of the Musée de l’Elysée in Lusana, Switzerland; the Fine Arts Museum in Houston, Texas; the Arts Center of Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA; Centro de la Imagen, Carrillo Gil’s Art Museum, Museo Universitario del Chopo and the Fundación Cultural Televisa.

She was a teacher in the Autonomous University of Morelos in the Faculty of Arts and in the Carlos Septién García Journalism school. She has given workshops and courses on the photography technique and artistic production in Art Centers in Mexico City, San Luis Potosí, Salamanca, Guanajuato, the Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center, just to mention a few.

Specializing in contemporary photography since 2009 and incorporating the representation and exhibition of international photographers in 2012, Patricia Conde Gallery is currently the only Mexican gallery focused on promoting diverse photographic practices.

Patricia Conde GalerĂ­a has become a reference of Mexican photography around the world for its selection of represented artists, the solidity in its proposals and concepts, the originality in its creative development, as well as for keeping an important legacy of modern photographers capturing Mexican scene.

The Gallery opens a dialogue about technique, questioning its roots, limits and projections, emphasizing on the influence that modern Mexican photographers have had on contemporaries, using their sources of inspiration to express current concepts.

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