UIW and FotoSeptiembre USA present the work of Mexican photographers Anayantzin Contreras and José Luis Rodriguez Ritte.
The work of Mexican photographers Anayantzin Contreras and José Luis Rodriguez Ritte explores the tensions embodied by their country’s syncretic heritage: tensions between nature and culture, instinct and intellect, design and improvisation, the local and the global, history and contemporaneity.
In Contreras’ work, landscape becomes introspective, disembodied and ethereal, while natural forms are abstracted into line, texture and arcane geometry; Rodriguez Ritte explores idiosyncratic beauty without indulging in the narrow optics of the ethnographic gaze: the portrait is a convergence of personal and social truths, while architecture lays bare contradiction and paradox, but also imagination. Both artists focus on revealing the complexity and sophistication that, combined with a contemporary sensibility, reveal the adaptive, receptive nature of a culture in a constant state of renewal. “Ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente.”
Curated by Gabriella Boschi Scott
Free and Open to the Public
Phone: 210-829-3852
Email: sul@uiwtx.edu
2022/09/09 - 2022/09/09
Additional time info:
Exhibit on Display: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Friday, September 9 – Friday, October 21, 2022
Kelso Art Center / Semmes Gallery
(Broadway and Hildebrand on UIW campus)
(Except UIW Holidays)
UIW Kelso Art Center/Semmes & Condos Gallery
4301 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209