Online Group Exhibition - "(Re)Collections" June 2023
Analog Forever Magazine is proud to present "(Re)Collections," an online group exhibition featuring 35 photographs created with film and analog processes, curated by artist, educator, and executive director of Filter Photo, Jennifer Murray!
Jennifer Murray writes:
Quirky, imperfect, precious, and mysterious – these are the words I kept coming back to in reviewing the submissions for (Re)Collections.
It’s always a challenge to choose work from among so many exciting entries but ultimately in all the images I selected there is a story, a narrative thread, that the viewer can never really access. We remain on the outside, looking at the edges of a moment or an experience longing to know more. Often photographs allow us to feel like we are a part of the story, right in the thick of it, but what drew me to this selection of images were the questions they stirred – why this object, these people, or this moment?
Collections, and collecting, brings out our passions and what we choose to keep and archive, both objects and photographs, is often very personal. The selected images for (Re)Collections reflect the complex juxtapositions that speak to the relationships we build around the collected material of our lives. I’m fascinated and intrigued by what the images reveal but also what they hide – what is lurking outside the frame. The manic, obsessive need to collect, to document, to keep, lies within each of us. These images offer a complicated mix of the cherished, beloved, and often disconcerting need to hold tight to what we hold dear.
~ Jennifer Murray
GALLERY
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Jennifer Murray is an artist, educator, and curator based in Chicago. She is the executive director of Filter Photo, a nonprofit festival, exhibition, and educational space. Her research and professional practice spans photography-based visual, curatorial, and writing projects with recent curatorial projects at the Chicago Cultural Center and essay contributions for various artists’ publications and exhibitions. Murray is a frequent curator, portfolio reviewer, and juror at photography events across the US. She teaches at Loyola University Chicago and is an independent artists' consultant. She received an MFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago.