Alejandro Barbosa
The artist responds to the photographic portraits in the artists’ book Reflections of a Face which he describes as a “compelling book [that] reflects on the gaze of the disenfranchised.” In his work, he focuses more specifically on revisited photographs of the Apollo moon landing missions demonstrating a concern with the privilege of looking at planet Earth directly and aims to challenge the universalist tone of space-exploration discourse. He also incorporates some of his own texts. He writes “my work is concerned with possible ways of participating in the mediative circulation of information.”
Alejandro A. Barbosa will receive his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Concordia University in 2018 and will continue studies in the MFA program at UBC.
Text based on written and spoken interviews between curator Melinda Reinhart and Alejandro Barbosa.