Between Truth and Fiction with Marisol Mendez
10.3.2024, 4:30 pm
Lab27 is hosting a special event on March 10 dedicated to Bolivian photographer Marisol Mendez and to the relationship between truth and fiction inherent in photography. There will be space to talk together and discuss your photographs and—why not—your projects and motivations, if you have them. Free entry, we start at 4:30 PM—see you there! On this occasion, the exhibition "Come nessun uomo saprà mai" will also be open. The show includes a selection of Mendez’s photographs from Madre. The work was born from the desire to celebrate the diversity and complexity of Bolivian culture through a different representation of femininity. The project became a cathartic experience to re-imagine Bolivia’s history through womanhood. Each portrait evokes blends of references rooted in magical realism or Andean baroque. A rich visual spectrum intertwining myth and reality, truth and fiction, opening up iconographic spaces abundant in diversity and reclaiming a future starting from an overlooked past.
Marisol Mendez is a photographer and researcher from Cochabamba, Bolivia. She studies the relationship between truth and fiction, and the deep connection between what a photograph constructs and the (sur)real from which it arises. Embracing the horizontality of images, she uses a wide range of visual languages to tell stories that cross the boundaries between individual experience, collective memory, and imagination. Rooted in the landscapes and folklore of Bolivian culture, her work oscillates between candid and staged, naturalistic and mythical. Her project Madre was published by Setanta Books in 2023, and the book is available for consultation in the exhibition. She won the Urbanautica Annual Award in 2022 and was selected for FOAM Talent in 2023. That same year she took part in the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House in London, UK; in Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, UAE; and in the Encontros da Imagem International Festival, Braga, Portugal.
Between Truth and Fiction with Marisol Mendez
10.3.2024, 4:30 pm
Lab27 is hosting a special event on March 10 dedicated to Bolivian photographer Marisol Mendez and to the relationship between truth and fiction inherent in photography. There will be space to talk together and discuss your photographs and—why not—your projects and motivations, if you have them. Free entry, we start at 4:30 PM—see you there! On this occasion, the exhibition "Come nessun uomo saprà mai" will also be open. The show includes a selection of Mendez’s photographs from Madre. The work was born from the desire to celebrate the diversity and complexity of Bolivian culture through a different representation of femininity. The project became a cathartic experience to re-imagine Bolivia’s history through womanhood. Each portrait evokes blends of references rooted in magical realism or Andean baroque. A rich visual spectrum intertwining myth and reality, truth and fiction, opening up iconographic spaces abundant in diversity and reclaiming a future starting from an overlooked past.
Marisol Mendez is a photographer and researcher from Cochabamba, Bolivia. She studies the relationship between truth and fiction, and the deep connection between what a photograph constructs and the (sur)real from which it arises. Embracing the horizontality of images, she uses a wide range of visual languages to tell stories that cross the boundaries between individual experience, collective memory, and imagination. Rooted in the landscapes and folklore of Bolivian culture, her work oscillates between candid and staged, naturalistic and mythical. Her project Madre was published by Setanta Books in 2023, and the book is available for consultation in the exhibition. She won the Urbanautica Annual Award in 2022 and was selected for FOAM Talent in 2023. That same year she took part in the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition at Somerset House in London, UK; in Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, UAE; and in the Encontros da Imagem International Festival, Braga, Portugal.
