November’s featured photographer is Solange Adum Abdala
Solange Adum Abdala is a photographer who was born in Lima, Peru in 1980. In 2006 she graduated from the Centro de la Imagen (Image Centre), a school of photography. She previously studied at Corriente Alterna, a school of fine arts at the Facultad de Artes de la Pontificia Universidad Católica (Faculty of Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University) in Peru.
Her first solo exhibition was in 2011 at the Galería El Borde del Centro de la Imagen (Borde Gallery at the Image Centre). She has shown her photographic work at Corriente Alterna, Gallery Pancho Fierro, Gallery Ojo Ajeno, Alianza Francesa in Lima and Gallery Carlos Caamaño-Proyecto Fotográfico.
Solange was the winner of the Concurso III Salón de la Fotografía (Third Competition of the Exhibition of Photography), organized by the first photography Biennale in Lima and the Instituto Peruano Norteamericano (North American Peruvian Institute). She was a finalist for the Repsol prize for Lima Photo in 2012. In 2013 she was a finalist in the competition Pasaporte Para un Artista (Passport for an Artist), organized by Alianza Francesa. She was also a finalist for two of her photographic series and was subsequently awarded third place, in 2013, at Eugenio Courret, a national competition of documentary photography.
In 2014 she received an honorable mention at the second Iberian-American competition, NexoFoto. Aside from her photographic projects she has taught at Lima’s Centro de la Imagen (Image Centre) for the past eight years.
To view more of Solange Adum Abdala’s work, here.
ORNIS II: LA MUERTE ES HERMOSA Y LA ETERNIDAD TAMBIÉN, (DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL AND ETERNITY ALSO).
Beginning with the formal elements that have been typically used in zoological classifications, the series Ornis I and Ornis II Death is Beautiful and Eternity Also, is a reflection on the death of the individual and what awaits them after life. The flight of birds, traditionally associated with the sensation of liberty, is transfigured in these photographic images in the Museo de Historia Natural (Museum of Natural History) at the University Mayor in San Marcos, where static individuals represent whole families of animals that still live.
Interview with Solange Adum Abdala
Foto Féminas: What do you think of photography in Peru?
Solange Adum Abdala: Nowadays I think it’s very difficult to generalize about the vision of photography in Peru. Peru is not homogeneous, so, for example, one can’t really compare Lima to other cities. We are fortunate to live during a photographic ‘boom’ in Lima. The public is experiencing a new affinity with photography and photography as art, like a visual language of expression and the importance of the image’s authority. During the last six years we’ve had the opportunity to host photographic biennales and fairs on an international level, exclusively focused on photography. Art galleries exhibit photographs all the time and as a consequence this has generated further interest both commercially and among collectors. Outside Lima there is still a more conventional photographic vision with a more informative content. However, little by little photography is opening up channels of communication and education which invite its users to have a new and more profound experience.
FF: How do your photographic projects develop?
SAA: I think each one has a unique way of constructing itself…Some derive suddenly from particular moments whereas others are the fruits of a constant observation of behaviour. What’s constant is that everything I photograph is always preconceived and constructed.
FF: What do you try and represent in your photographic projects?
SAA: The majority of my projects are born out of a necessity to record evidence of our daily life; for me the clearest way to project this reflection is to document spaces related to culture, education, etc. I aim to represent how we learn, and that we are what we learn.
La fotógrafa del mes de Noviembre es Solange Adum Abdala
Fotógrafa nacida en Lima, Perú en 1980. Egresada en el año 2006 de la escuela de fotografía Centro de la Imagen. Previamente realiza estudios en la Escuela de Bellas Artes Corriente Alterna y en la Facultad de Artes de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Expone individualmente por primera vez en el 2011 en la Galería El Borde del Centro de la Imagen. Colectivamente su obra fotográfica ha sido mostrada en Corriente Alterna, Galería Pancho Fierro, Galería Ojo Ajeno, en la Alianza Francesa de Lima y con la Galería Carlos Camaño-Proyecto Fotográfico.
Adum es ganadora del Concurso III Salón de la Fotografía, organizado por la primera Bienal de Fotografía de Lima y el Instituto Peruano Norteamericano. Finalista del premio Repsol en Lima Photo en el 2012. En el 2013 quedó como finalista en el concurso Pasaporte Para un Artista, organizado por la Alianza Francesa, así como también finalista con dos series y merecedora del tercer puesto en el concurso nacional de fotografía documental Eugenio Courret en el 2013.
En el 2014 queda como cuarta mención honrosa del 2do Concurso Iberoamericano NexoFoto. Aparte de sus proyectos fotográficos, se desempeña hace 8 años como docente del Centro de la Imagen en Lima.
Para conocer más sobre los trabajos de Solange Adum Abdala, aquí.
Serie 2: ORNIS II: LA MUERTE ES HERMOSA Y LA ETERNIDAD TAMBIÉN”
A partir de los elementos formales que se han utilizados típicamente en las clasificaciones zoológicas, las series “Ornis I” y “Ornis II-“La muerte es hermosa y la eternidad también”, plantean una reflexión sobre la muerte del individuo y lo que queda tras la vida. El el vuelo de los pájaros, que tradicionalmente se asocia a la sensación de libertad, queda transfigurado en estas imagines fotografiadas en el Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Donde los individuos estáticos pasan a representar familias enteras de animales que aún siguen vivos.
Entrevista con Solange Adum Abdala
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