Un sentido de misterio. Photographic intuition workshop with Juliana Gómez Quijano
Dates: Saturdays, from October 21 to November 4, 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Format: In-person
Instructor: Juliana Gómez Quijano, artist
Investment
Presale: $239,000 COP (until Sunday, October 15)
Friends of MAMM: $216,000 COP
General: $270,000 COP
There is always an image before the photograph. Whether it is an image that pulses in one of your childhood memories or something that emerged intermittently in a dream; it may be a sensation, a question, a fear. They are seed images that do not yet inhabit the physical plane, but they do rest in the plane of ideas; furthermore, there are ways to nourish these latent images, to care for them and bring them down to this plane to transform them into fictions and photographs.
Un sentido de misterio is a workshop to approach, in an exploratory and sensitive way, the possibilities that photography offers us for representing ideas and affects. During the sessions, we approach images as fragments of fictions rather than as realities; in addition, we will play at experimenting through the layers of meaning in photographs and navigate between creative methodologies in service of auteur photography.
Content and methodology by session
The development of this workshop is structured in a didactic and flexible methodology, with the goal of positioning one’s own knowledge as an essential element in photographic creation. Through conversation and the development of introspective and expressive exercises led by the instructor, participants will address the concepts of latent image and fiction, to subsequently formalize photographically the knowledge acquired.
Session 1: In addition to presenting the workshop through a round of questions to get to know each other and build group agreements, we will focus on exploring the concept of the latent image through a series of provocations guided by the instructor; in this way, we will learn to stimulate our inner observation to bring down to the creative plane all those images that are part of our corpus of affects and that are susceptible to being transformed into photographs.
Session 2: During this session, we will delve deeper into the narrative possibilities of fictions and their faculty for amplifying and shaping personal affects. It will be an encounter in which we will share reflections and exercises to give body to the confluence between latent images and fictions; something essential in auteur photography. We will navigate through photographic projects by authors who use fiction and speculation to tell stories.
Session 3: From idea to matter! In this session, we will co-create an ephemeral scenographic space that will serve as a common experimentation studio. Subsequently, we will revisit the concepts from previous sessions and the narratives created by participants, to carry out a closing photographic exercise in which each attendee will produce 3 portraits (or self-portraits) to formalize their fiction narrative.
About Juliana Gomez Quijano
Photographer interested in researching and reflecting on the molecular and symbolic connections that unite us as a species. She studied Advertising at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin and completed a Master’s in Auteur Photography at Lens Escuela de Artes Visuales in Madrid. Her projects have been exhibited in different venues and photography festivals such as the Festival Internacional de Fotografia San Jose Foto (2023, San Jose de Mayo, Uruguay), the Festival Internacional de imagen Getxophoto (2021, Basque Country, Euskadi), and at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin (2021, Medellin, Colombia); as well as galleries, universities, and libraries in Medellin and Bogota. In 2022, she won the artistic residency “El Espacio que Somos” from the Planetario de Medellin; in 2021, The Photographic Museum of Humanity awarded one of her projects with an exhibition, and in 2013, she received first prize at the Fourth Comfenalco Art Biennial.