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Email PageIn Portugal
September 15, 2007- October 31, 2007
Reception: September 15, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Candida Höfer
Sonnabend
536 W 22nd StOn September 15, 2007 the Sonnabend Gallery will open “In Portugal”, an exhibition of new, large format photographs by Candida Höfer.
This project consists of a selection of photographs taken in public and private places, some historical, some modern, with signs of human activity, but with no actual human presence.
In an essay about these works, the Portuguese writer José Saramago wrote that in these photographs Candida Höfer “set out to capture empty space, to pin it down, to make it visible” and writes further “It is hardly original to say that all photographs are silent, but in these gigantic images the silence draws depth from the emptiness, whilst the empty space draws on the silence to become, at last, absolute.”
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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