Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez

Lives and works in USA

Artist statement

My work draws on conceptual and documentary practices to explore histories of political engagement and the shifting relationship between individuals and institutions. Working between photography and video, I leverage oppositions often associated with photography—truth/fiction, analogue/digital—as a means to explore changing social oppositions. In creating forms I appropriate and revise existing modes of production by employing reinterpretation, translation, and restaging to overlay the present against the past. In doing so I use material such as found photographs, magazine interviews and film/television scripts to reconsider the accounting of history and suggest alternative subject positions.

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