Pan American Art Projects is very pleased to announce our next exhibition of Argentine Photography, with works by Gian Paolo Minelli, Santiago Porter, Graciela Sacco, Pablo Soria, and Lucia Warck-Meister. Gian Paolo Minelli and Graciela Sacco use space as the protagonist in their works. Minelli’s stark views of an empty penitentiary imply stories of people that pass through there. In Sacco’s images space symbolizes transition and the constant movement of people. Santiago Porter, on the other hand, chose to illustrate a social situation by portraying the buildings that represent the economic collapse of the country. Porter took his images early in the morning, creating an eerie effect of desolation. Pablo Soria and Lucia Warck-Meister’s works are very intimate. Both artists are dealing with identity. Soria portrays places of his native Tucuman, abandoned houses and bucolic landscapes. Lately he incorporates his own image as an ethereal presence in the scenes. His pieces are embedded with nostalgia and yearning for a past time. Warck-Meister’s elegant compositions, especially her Invisible Cities series, are like divertimentos captured in a fleeting moment. The hypnotic and calming sensation produced by the cold palette in the spectrum of blues invites to introspection.

Gian Paolo Minelli was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1968. Currently he lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Switzerland.

Santiago Porter was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. His work has been shown in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Argentina and abroad and is also included in several public and private collections. He was awarded a Guggenheim grant in 2002 and also received an award from the Antorchas Foundation in Buenos Aires. In that same year he was invited to take part in the residency for visual artists held by the Banff Center for the Arts in Canada. In 2007 he received a grant to take part in the Intercampos III program organized by the Telefonica Foundation in Buenos Aires and received the First Prize for Contemporary Photography awarded by The Central Society of Architecture of Buenos Aires. In 2008 he was awarded the Petrobras Award for Contemporary Photography. In 2010 he was granted the National Grant from Argentina’s National Fund for the Arts. He is the author of “Piezas” [Pieces], published in 2003, and “La ausencia” [The absence], published in 2007. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

Born in Rosario, Argentina in 1956, Graciela Sacco currently lives and works in Argentina and Spain.

Pablo Soria was born in 1964, in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Currently he lives and works in Miami, Florida.

Lucia Warck Meister was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She currently lives and works in New York, New York.

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