Patricia Lagarde At Paris Photo 2019

PATRICIA LAGARDE

ESPACIOS DE REFLEXIÓN Y FANTASÍA Curated by Emma Cecilia García Krisnky

Take me to the Moon A suitcase is a container of unique universes, a symbolic object that extends individual identity. The person carrying it owns there a part of his or her inner self.

The suitcase is located between desire and fact, between possibility and event.

The specific weight, shape, color, the contents of the luggage itself; accumulation of determining data. Organizing them is a matter of calculation and precision. A suitcase, when shipped, acquires codes, signs, marks and stains. Then the journey begins.

“91 kilos weighed each full suit of the Apollo XI astronauts with their backpack, helmets, boots and radio equipment, keeping also a range of six hours and 30 minutes of emergency oxygen time.”1 The journey was completed in nine days, “The era of discoveries on Earth had come to an end, the planet was almost completely mapped, so where to go after Earth, if not to outer space?”2.

Moon dust, meteorites, a blue marble floating in a vacuum, the footprint, abandoned boots, the weightless, “magnificent desolation”3. Craters, rocks and a gray landscape of deep shadows.

Reinvent, imagine, turn the journey into a stage, a portable theater.

Assemble and rearm the puzzle. Let the experience be unique and diverse, - Do not lose the sense of adventure. That’s what life is about.4

1 Agencia Telam.

2 Alexandra Loske y Robert Massey, “Luna, Arte, Ciencia y Cultura”..

3 Mariano Iannaccone, “Ser humano en la Luna: Buzz Aldrin cuenta la epopeya”, La Voz. 4 Ibídem.

Patricia Lagarde Take me to the Moon 2019 Installation Mix Media 38 x 53.5 x 18 cm Ed. 1/1

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Patricia Lagarde The Moon And The Rabbit 2018 Cyanotype On Japanese Paper 110 Ă— 110 cm Ed. 5

Melancolía I In the engraving Melancolía I, which Dürer made in 1514, a winged being appears as a central character: a woman with a slightly bowed head, leaning over her left hand and her gaze fixed at a distant point, invisible to us. A famished dog accompanies her, sleeps beside her; the sea is seen in the distance and in the sky, a comet fills the afternoon with portents. Saturn, the relentless time, invades the entire scene with its presence. Various tools and objects lie abandoned around the figure. The work has been interrupted...

Is it tedium that has taken hold of it, is it indolence, sadness, sleep?

It is not the dream that paralyzes your energy - Panofsky tells us but thought.

In this poetic allegory of creative meditation, Dürer merges two perceptions; the medieval idea that conceived the melancholic temperament as extreme acedia, causing boredom, clumsiness and neglect; and the Renaissance representation, which takes up the Aristotelian approach and attributes to melancholy the power of contemplation, imagination and genius.

This work, full of mystery and wealth, offers us a list of symbols to interpret; the tools and characters of the engraving become signs, hieroglyphs, footprints ...

Patricia Lagarde MelancolĂ­a, inventario 2018 Polyptych, Archival Pigment Print on Cotton Paper 120 x 120 cm

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Patricia Lagarde MelancolĂ­a 2014 Artist Book, Photoengraving 30 x 22 cm

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Patricia Lagarde, México, 1961 Patricia Lagarde has displayed her work in galleries and museums around the world in both group and solo shows. In Mexico she has shown in spaces such as Centro de la Imagen, Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Carrillo Gil, Museo de Historia Natural, Museo Álvarez Bravo, Galería Patricia Conde, Galería Ema Molina, Galería E. Romero, and CENART. Abroad some of the spaces she has shown her work include: Galería Ocurrance (Montreal, Canada), Centro Cultural Lowicka (Warsaw, Poland), el Centro Cultural Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) and CODEX International Book fair (San Francisco, USA).

She has published books and specialized magazines such as Luna Córnea, Artes de México, Casa del Tiempo, Alquimia, La Tempestad and Espacio.

Prizes and distinctions: -First place for the competition ‘MASQUELIBROS’ ,Madrid, Spain, 2017 -Member of the Mexican National System of Art Creators (Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte) 2015-2017.

-Official Selection for the competition ‘De la Memoria y el Olvido’, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 2013.

-First place in TV Category, XIX Festival and Exhibition of National TV and Video Network for the documentary on her work: Naturaleza Quieta: “Polaris”, TV UNAM, 2013.

-Special Prize in the Second FUMCA Competition, 2013.

-Juror for the at PROGRAMA EDMUNDO VALADÉS, FONCA, 20112012.

-Honorary mention for her book “Wunderkammer” from FOTOSEPTIEMBRE (International Artists Book Fair), Mexico City, 2011 -Juror and Mentor, Programa Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, 2009.

-Official Selection, XI Bienal de Fotografía, México, 2004.

-Official Selection, X Bienal de Fotografía, México, 2002.

-Induced into the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, 2001-2003.

-Grant recipient, Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales, FONCA, 2000.

-Grant recipient, Programa Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA ,1995.

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.

General Juan Cano #68 San Miguel Chapultepec, CDMX + 52 (55) 5290-6345 / 46 info@patriciacondegaleria.com