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ANYA TISH GALLERY - OPENS SEPT 5TH - 6:00PM-8:30PM

Begona Egurbide

Beginning on September 5 and running through October 4, 2008,
Anya Tish Gallery 4411 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77006 will
present an exhibition of Begoña Egurbide’s latest works, entitled
Passage. Begoña Egurbide is a Barcelona-based photographer and
videographer. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in
Europe and Brazil including the International Video Art Show in Berlin
and the Dubai Art Fair. Passage, her first show in the US, will
showcase her large-scale lenticular photographic prints (the largest is
15 feet wide).

Lenticular photography creates images that have elements that
seem to appear or disappear due to the angle the piece is viewed
from. This technique requires the artist to take a series of digital
photographs of the subject in the same setting but in different poses.
These images are then layered together using graphic manipulation
software. The piece is then printed and mounted behind a clear
plastic sheet lens through which the print is viewed.

Using lenticular photographic printing technology, Egurbide conveys
the way the mind constructs memory, as fragments of images pieced
together to create a coherent experience. Egurbide describes her
body of work as “about movement, loss of innocence [and] sexual
learning” such as in her piece Ratita, which depicts a young girl
wearing smudged lipstick while standing on the street. Is the girl
playing dress-up or is this something more sinister? In Passage, the
viewer must physically move along the image and mentally fill in the
“cracked narrative” created by the multiple fragments in order to
achieve the effect of the subjects moving through a phase of their
lives.

Anya Tish Gallery
4411 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
(713) 524-2299
www.anyatishgallery.com

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