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Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez

Assistant Professor, Photography

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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.

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Praxis PRAX 300 26/SP

Description

This third year course offers the opportunity for students to develop their practice within the discourse of contemporary and historical art discourse. Students will acquire a critical vocabulary for understanding their own trajectories in dialogue with the context and history of art, through group critiques, discussions of pertinent writings, and individual and group presentations of research on a variety of subjects related to their area of practice. A Dialogues course is an investigation of artistic practice premised on a student's own interest to situate their work in a broader discourse and professional realm. They will learn skills related to completing projects, making presentations, speaking in public, leading discussions, writing, and integrating research and knowledge within their creative practice. Weekly meetings will allow for critiques of self-directed studio projects, discussion of assigned readings, and presentations of research projects.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.