Fellows Exhibition: José De Sancristóbal,
Study for the translation of Modern Times (1936)
Opening: Friday, March 21, 5-8 pm
On View March 21 to 30, 2025
Hudson D. Walker Gallery
In Politically Red (2023), Sara Nadal-Melsió and Eduardo Cadava write things like: “in order to read a sentence, we need to reconstruct the world or worlds that made it possible and that the sentence in turn calls into being.” This work is about deliberately proliferating the possible readings of things, like reading the previous quote as referring to prison sentences (even staged ones).
José De Sancristóbal, Still (in progress), 2025.
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About the Artist
José De Sancristóbal is an artist and wannabe translator. For the past three years, he’s used photography, video, film, and writing to consider different functions lens-based images perform within the configuration of the nation-state. His recent films and videos draw equally upon formal rigor and fantasy, producing self-differing subjects and objects. Informed by the camera’s history as a tool to regulate citizens and their movement, his work disorganizes established identification techniques by viewing them through the lens of unmeasurable practices: fiction, role-play, memory, translation, and magical realism are used to poke holes in those devices purporting to administer the self—such as passport photographs, biographical information, legal status, or national borders.
