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Silvana Agostoni
Born
Silvana Agostoni
Known forPhotography

Silvana Agostoni is a Mexican-Italian visual artist whose work is known for her photographs exploring issues of the body, identity and landscape.  Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. She lives and works in Minneapolis and Mexico City.

Early life

Agostoni was born into a creative family and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. Her father, Jorge Agostoni, was an architect from Italy, who played a major role in the planning and design of key museums in Mexico and other parts of the world since the 1960s, including the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City and the Olympic Museum in Switzerland.[1] Her mother, Lucille Urencio, was a Mexican actress.

Education

Agostoni was driven to study photography as soon as she finished high school. She spent two years taking photography classes at Escuela Activa de Fotografía to get her certification as a professional photographer. Afterwards, she obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City.[2] Following the completion of her bachelor’s degree, she moved to New York City to get her Master of Fine Arts in Photography, Video and New Media at The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC).[3]

Career

Agostoni’s art focuses on landscapes, represented in both the body and the world and how they transform and behave over time.[3] She has produced multiple large-scale photographic series, video projects, and published two photographic books based on her works Traces and White.[citation needed] Many of her works also discuss the effects of climate change on the environment and the nature of humans’ contact with the world. In her series involving the human body as a landscape, she also tackles concepts surrounding how to identify the self with the body, unfamiliarity, and the body as a map.[citation needed]

The large-scale photographic series, On Veils, takes a look at natural elements such as mist, fog, and steam to create bodies of art that represent dramatic and transformational sceneries.[4] Many of the images in the series examine environmental forces as a way to simplify physical space and make it serene.[5]

Traces is a project depicting ephemera taken at a former penitentiary in Mexico. The images are re-interpretations of icons and remnants left behind, creating an illusion of presence.[6]

Topografias is a series of photographs that depict close up images of the human body, in which the contours of body’s skin translate the self into a map.[7] The prints capture small snippets of skin, nails, and hair. Agostoni critiques visual determinism by showing diverse intersectional bodies defined by nationality, gender, and so on.[7]: 395 

Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte Fellowship

In 2019, Agostoni began the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte Fellowship, a three-year program sponsored by the National Fund for Arts and Culture in Mexico. Issues addressed in the works of her fellowship include the themes presented in White among others that portray the natural world.[4] In her photographic practice, she also considers the differences between her photographs of physical landscapes and 19th century landscape photography. In 2021, she collaborated with Springboard for the Arts to discuss what art she makes while in isolation during the U.S. quarantine period.[8]

Selected exhibitions

Year Exhibition Name Gallery / Museum Location
2019-2020 Identidades[9] Museo Archivo de Fotografía Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Thirty Three Views[3] Second Shift Studio Space Saint Paul, Minnesota
2011 Manchas en el Muro (solo)[6] Centro Fotográfico Alvarez Bravo Oaxaca, Mexico
2011 Huellas (solo)[10] Museo Archivo de la Fotografía Mexico City, Mexico
2009 Only Water[4] Dina Mitrani Gallery Miami, Florida
2007 Face: Scavenging Identity, Eight artists explore the margins of portrait genre[5] Baahng Gallery New York, New York
2002 ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair Galería Enrique Guerrero Madrid, Spain[11]
2000 Latin American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Gallery Collection[12] Museo del Barrio New York, New York
2000 Topografías[13] Centro de la Imagen Mexico City, Mexico
1998 New Visions Five Contemporary Mexican Photographers Houston Center for Photography Houston, Texas
1997 Physiognomy (solo) White Columns Gallery New York, New York

References

  1. ^ Larrauri, Iker. "Museography / Museology". Retrieved 2021-04-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Silvana Agostoni". Museográfica. 2016-10-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ a b c "Thirty Three Views". Second Shift Studio Space of Saint Paul.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b c "ONLY WATER | A SUMMER GROUP EXHIBITION". DINA MITRANI GALLERY. Retrieved 2021-03-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b "FACE: Scanvenging Identity". JENNIFER BAAHNG. 2019-04-09. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  6. ^ a b ""Manchas en el muro" de Silvana Agostoni". RCMultimedios.mx (in Spanish). 2011-07-05. Retrieved 2021-08-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ a b Segre, Erica (2002). "The Poetics of Skin: Surface and Inscription in Contemporary Photography in Mexico". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 79 (3): 385–402. doi:10.3828/bhs.79.3.10.
  8. ^ Buffington, Sam (2021-02-02). "Artists Respond: Combating Social Isolation". Springboard for the Arts. Retrieved 2021-08-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Identidades ofrece en el Museo Archivo de la Fotografía una geografía del rostro femenino". Secretaría de Cultura de la Ciudad de México (in Spanish). 2019-12-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Soledad, extravío y paisaje". Cuartoscuro. 2011-02-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. ^ LensCulture, Silvana Agostoni |. "Silvana Agostoni". LensCulture.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ "Timeline" (PDF). El Museo del Barrio.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "Centro de la Imagen | Exposiciones 2000". centrodelaimagen.cultura.gob.mx.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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