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A horse neighing and baring its teeth; the shadow of a tree; cherries; candy trail; a cowboy with a mask; a hand touching someone known; a parrot; a deformed spiritual lion's head; wrinkled sheet of paper unfolded like a Rorschach test; a curtain.
Some light turbulence may occur is grounded in conversations with five artists, who we believe represent some of the most interesting interactions with the photographic medium today. Upon seeing what they all presented, it was immediately clear that this was going to be an exhibition about presence in the most turbulent of times.
By recollecting the bits of what is lost and what is to be found in their surroundings, the artists, in their own curious way, transform the exhibition space into a place of transcendence through presence.
Philosophically, presence has been explored through phenomenology, particularly in the work of Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who considered human experience to be deeply intertwined with perception and embodiment. In an era where digital distractions fragment our attention, presence is no longer a given but an intentional practice. Contemporary art constantly explores this tension between presence and absence by examining how the physical and virtual realms intersect.
Photography is a medium of paradoxes: it documents and distorts, reveals, and conceals, immortalizes, and estranges. In this exhibition, all five artists engage with these contradictions, offering distinct yet interwoven approaches to contemporary photographic practice. One could say their works challenge the authority of the camera, questioning notions of truth, identity, memory, and materiality.