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28/11/2012

Lalo Borja

Galeria Mu, Bogota'

BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA —Galería MÜ, the first gallery in Colombia dedicated solely to fine-art photography will launch its closing exhibit for 2012, Return by the Colombian photographer original from Cali, Lalo Borja.

Black and white photography has left a mark in history by taking on a classical vision of the world and a using it as a recurring tool for intensifying frozen time; therefore proclaiming itself as one of man's greatest allies in the quest for immortality. In Lalo Borja´s Return, the contrast of these two tones display a great technique, developed over thirty years, and a delicate composition that speaks of visual notes as well as collective and personal memories an encounters.

Lalo Borja: Return presents images taken by this Colombian artist over the past 30 years. A collection of urban landscapes, cultural scenes and portraits of artists and intellectuals such as Oscar Muñoz, Ruben Blades, Susan Sontag, Lucy Tejada and Allan Ginsberg, amongst others. "There have been many moments of satisfaction in the last thirty years of wandering across several continents, and countless photographs have been found around an unsuspecting corner, or deeper behind the reflection of a window pane – where the unknown magic of the world has shown its face," describes Borja.

After moving to Toronto in 1975, Borja began his work as a photojournalist until his return to Colombia in 1982. A couple of years later, he returned to living abroad in San Francisco, California where he delved into the broad artist community there while working in a photography laboratory. His artistic influences are evident in his photographs of this time, capturing the wind-blown west coast of California.

Returning to Colombia in 1994 initiated another brief period of capturing his homeland as seen in the religious image of a boy on Ash Wednesday. During this time, he became an integral part of the visual arts faculty of the University of Valle, the Institute of Fine Arts, and the University of San Buenaventura. In 2000, he moved abroad again, this time to Kent, about an hour outside of London, to teach photography at the Canterbury College. He has since stayed in Kent, teaching and capturing his images, often traveling to hidden corners and brightly lit open spaces throughout Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, and England.

Image: Ash Wednesday, Cali, 1995, 20 x 20cm. Silver gelatin print, Ed. 5. Courtesy of the artist and Galería MÜ.

Opening reception: Thursday, November 29 from 7-9pm.

Galería MÜ
Cra 4A #26B-29, L. 202 - Bogotá, Cundinamarca
Tuesday – Friday: 11am-2pm / 3pm-6pm
Saturday: 11am-3pm

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