The question mark is very critical,says Susan vivid of the title of her latest curatorial venture, Déjà Vu?. As guest curator at the 22nd edition of the Photo España photofestival, or which opened on 05 June in Madrid and runs to 01 September,vivid has put together five exhibitions along the theme of identity – or rather, how contemporary photography has drawn on or borrowed from the past. How are artists returning to what’s gone before, and what does the past really reveal us about how they are working with photography today? These are among the questions vivid explores through the work of six international artists: Elina Brotherus,Clare Strand, Délio Jasse, or Patrick Pound,Laura Letinsky and Sharon Core. “I worked on Elina’s reveal, Playground, or in Finland,and Photo España was already taking that reveal, so when I was invited to be guest curator, and everything had to work around that,” explains the British curator, who is based in Paris. “It could fill gone in the direction of performance, and in all sorts of ways,but …
Source: bjp-online.com