Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez
Assistant Professor, Photography
Education:
MFA, University of Pennsylvania
BFA , School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Bio
Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez works in photography, film and video to examine the temporal ambiguity of our experiences of images. His work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, at Luhring Augustine, New York and at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow. His work has been featured in Artforum, Border Crossings, and the New York Times and others. In 2019 he was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.
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Research Interests
Gonzalo’s research interests focus on the relationship between time, media, and historical representation through photography, video, and film installation. His work critically engages with the ways in which photography and cinema shape our collective memory and historical consciousness. He is particularly interested in re-staging and reinterpreting historical moments, scenes from cinema, and archival photographs and texts, examining how their meanings evolve over time.
A central aspect of his research is the use of photography and moving image to explore time as a layered, non-linear construct. In film works he reconstructs historical dialogues sourced from cinema and radio—through contemporary re-enactments of speeches from cinema (Contrapoder #1, 2017), the making of narration from a DVD (Under Fire From All Sides, 2019) and the abstract narrative analysis of found photographs (Portrait Technoir, 2021), highlighting the slippages between past and present, reality and fiction.
