Hidden Realities is the title of the exhibition bringing together the final projects of this class from our Master’s in New Documentary Photography. The show, curated by Erik Kessels, opens on Tuesday, June 30, and runs through Thursday, July 2 at the Nau Bostik.
The question running through it is as simple as it is unsettling: what if the most revealing part of a photograph were precisely what cannot be seen? From that premise, ten artists push at the boundaries of the image as a tool for recording and interpretation, working through themes of memory, trace, and what remains outside the frame.
The works span documentary, conceptual, and experimental approaches, combining the re-reading of archives with the manipulation and circulation of images. Together they propose the photograph as an unstable field, marked by omissions, displacements, and reconstructions: a space where seeing does not, necessarily, mean understanding.
The ten artists in the exhibition are Brandon Lopez, Sarah Obermaier, Salvador Pastor, Ella Paijmans, Andrés F. Bermúdez, Andrea González, Mackenzie Duncan, Jonathan B. Small, Milo Vidal, and Lara Neves. Congratulations to all our students and to the faculty team behind the program, led by Salvatore Elefante and Luca Pagliari!
