DESCRIPTION
These images are from “Caught between Two Worlds” a film based series of double-exposed silver gelatin prints dealing with immigration in the Southwestern US. The images capture two different points in time merged through double-exposed photographs. These moments are reflections of memory, the flux of time and the prospect of future. The duality of double-exposures presents the viewer with a sense of past and present, old and new, cultural change, and traversing of borders.
The photographs challenge truth, invert spaces, question logic, fuse landscape and people, asking one to carefully examine not just the images, but the issue itself.
Images reveal an eerie landscape, use metaphor to tell a story of arduous labor, isolation, and promise. Artifacts in the landscape are symbolic of a people detained, while the layers evoke the American Dream.
Ultimately I am these people, but aren’t we all. Each with our own unique story yet also a shared history. People will continue to make new places their home, be it for political, religious, economic, or personal reasons.
Through the images the issue arises, is our place of origin important, relevant, or forgotten? My photographs don’t offer an answer but hopefully they help to further the dialogue.
AUTHOR
Elizabeth Z Pineda has been interested in photography since childhood. Yet, she waited until her four children were grown up before starting her studies in art with an emphasis in photography. She has been working with traditional film/darkroom processes for over ten years
Elizabeth's photography focuses on people, ideas, and controversial issues seldom noticed or regarded hoping to give voice to those often living in silence or in society’s shadow.
~Through photography I can speak visually of community and touch on barriers of language, culture and society. I hope my photographs will resonate with you.
Caught between Two Worlds, Burton Barr @ Central Gallery, Phoenix, AZ. September 1st - October 13, 2017 (Exhibiting 25 photographs)
La Señora, Arising, and Las Sillas, Art Intersection: Light Sensitive, 2017, Gilbert, AZ. March 7 - April 15, 2017.
Casita, Herberger Gallery @ Arizona Center, Phoenix, AZ. January 20 - March 10, 2017
El Capitolio, (Third Place) The Western Eye Photography Competition, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix AZ. November 2016.
State of Mind, no. 4, M.C.C.C.D. Artists of Promise, Herberger Theater, Phoenix AZ. April 2016.
Deception, (Honorable Mention) and State of Mind, no. 4, The Western Eye Photography Competition, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix, AZ. November, 2015.
