SCOUT DEARTH & CARMEN MUNOZ-FERNANDEZ

SCOUT DEARTH & CARMEN MUNOZ-FERNANDEZ

This show addresses a fundamentally photographic aspect of spatial perception. While both bodies of work create implausible landscapes for the viewer to question, they do so in different ways. Munoz-Fernandez’s work presents a surreal visual experience through media such as screenshots, social media interactions, and sourcing from a temporal digital archive. Dearth produces more of an omniscient or hyperreal space by combining multiple views of a singular environment.

SCOUT DEARTH

This photographic series is based in a discussion of stereoscopic vision, or the way the human eye perceives space. In her childhood home and other emotionally relevant locations, the artist implements composited imagery, multiple perspectives, and stereoscopic photography to displace and defamiliarize the viewer. By experiencing a photograph made in a way that is challenging for the human eye to comprehend, the hyperreal and unsettling quality parallels the dissociation of the artist’s subjective relationship to the home, which questions the emotional weight humans project onto domestic spaces.

SNAP SPACE – CARMEN MUNOZ-FERNANDEZ

Espanglish, I was there is a collage based series chronicling Carmen’s experience of being a dual citizen.

She creates unreliable spaces combining photos from her 5 year archive of Spain and the United States to mirror how she perceives her experience as an immigrant in America and as an outsider in Spain.

Viewers are confronted with a sense of disorientation in a space that lies between the graphic and photographic.