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18/1/2006

Persona-Personae

Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York

Ben E Graham, Christina McPhee, Lucien Samaha

Sara Tecchia Roma New York is proud to present Persona-Personae, a group show of new work exploring different pathways into both psychological portraiture and the photographic medium.

Ben E. Graham's series, People At The Start Of The New Century, seeks to "pull people from their own egos and surroundings back to their neglected being." Using inversed photography and hyper-stylized electronic drawings, Graham captures "not so much vulnerabilities, but the essential connection that humans feel for one another when they feel safe." Most of his portraits portray women who have broken his heart.

Media artist Christina Mc Phee presents large-scale images from her acclaimed Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, a meditation on seismic memory along the San Andreas Fault in California. Most visible in the high desert of Carrizo Plain northwest of Los Angeles, the fault cuts through a terrain of abandoned ranch sites and salt marshes; to the northwest at Parkfield, a recent 6.0 quake has produced a wealth of online seismic data. McPhee documents a psychogeographic trace through this seismic landscape, combining photography, video, performance and drawing together with data visualizations. Her architecturally scaled images are a "vertical cinema", layers of time-image, that point to the perpetual risk of our existence--think tsunami, think Katrina--and the cultural amnesia of this state necessary to continue. She recalls Persephone--the goddess who disappears into the ground--as if to suggest a cybernetic link between site, memory and disaster.

This is the first time that a group of digital chromogenic prints from the Diaries will be seen in New York City. A related net artwork, using near-live ground motion data, is archived at Whitney Museum of American Art Artport. Videos from the Diaries project have shown internationally in 2005, in Italy, Sweden, Brazil and California.

Award-winning photographer Lucien Samaha also presents a new series, From Above, approaching the portrait from quite literally a new angle. Media artist Christina Mc Phee presents large-scale images from her acclaimed Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries,. He has also recreated his Italian balcony to present an experience pregnant with an angelic voyeurism.

Samaha is also showing a selection of As Promised..., his ongoing e-mail archive project. With well over 4000 entries to date, Samaha records everyday and extraordinary people stating their e-mail addresses. The result is a series of intimate portraits as well as a clever play on the perfect mailing list. The first time shown in the United States, this project originally secured Samaha a nomination for last year's Nam June Paik Award in Germany.

Contemporary to Persona-Personae is Good is What Pleases at Frankfurt's Museum Modern Art. Here Samaha's work will be shown alongside that of Wolfgang Tillmans and Hans-Peter Feldman. The show runs from January 15th to February 15th 2006.

Opening: January 19th, 2006, 6 to 8pm

Sara Tecchia Roma New York
529 West 20th Street, between Tenth Avenue and Eleventh Avenue - New York (second floor)
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am to 6pm

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