Exhibition Tour | Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection with Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez

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In person at Griffin Art Projects

Join us for a special tour of Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection with Vancouver-based photographer and film/video artist Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez. Known for their interest in the connections between art and society, the Mauers’ collection offers revealing and timely insights into contemporary photography’s capacity to encompass the complexity of 20th- and 21st-century life. Reyes Rodriguez will focus on artists such as Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman, Shirin Neshat, Francis Stark and André Kertész, among others, whose works engage portraiture, identity, staging, and the politics of representation. Drawing connections between these practices and the broader conceptual strategies in the exhibition, the tour will frame the collection as an ongoing inquiry into how artworks construct subjectivity and shape our understanding of the social world.

This tour is co-presented by Capture Photography Festival and Griffin Art Projects.

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Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez works with photography and film/video to examine the temporal ambiguity of our experiences of images. His work critically engages with the ways in which media such as photography and cinema, shape our collective memory and historical consciousness. Recent solo presentations include David Peter Francis, New York City (2024); Center for Artistic and Cultural Practices, Winnipeg (2021); and Terremoto/La Postal, Mexico City (2019). His work has been a part of group exhibitions, most recently, Luhring Augustine, New York City (2024); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2023), and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2022). In 2023 he was awarded the New Generation Photography Award by the National Gallery of Canada. His work has been featured in Aperture, Artforum, Border Crossings, the New York Times, and is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art among others. He lives and works in Vancouver where he is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He is represented by David Peter Francis, NYC.