Artist Dialogue Rewind: Ricardo Barros and Lauren Szumita
Saturday, December 7
Listen to the full Artist Dialogue here!
There's no better way to bend space and time than to rewind to photographer Ricardo Barro's Artist Dialogue. Forty people gathered in ArtsWorcester's East Gallery on the morning of Saturday, December 7 to get greater insight into the panoramic photographs that earned the artist the Marlene and David Persky Present Tense Prize, awarded to an artist demonstrating artistic risk-taking and innovation.
Ricardo dissected the intricacies of his process - taking dozens of shots, being purposeful with each, selecting which fits best in the story he wants to tell, and stitching the photos together to create dizzying (yet captivating) finished photographs. He was in conversation with Lauren Szumita, the Director of the Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross. She was previously Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum and a curatorial assistant of prints, drawings and photographs at the Worcester Art Museum. Her knowledge of photography guided Ricardo through a more detailed look at pieces in his solo exhibition, An Entanglement of Space and Time, on view at ArtsWorcester through December 15, 2024.
// Ricardo Barros, Fight Night, 360-degree flattened photograph, 24" x 48", 2021
While Ricardo's photographs are technically sound, he noted in his Artist Dialogue that the stories told by each photo are what really set them apart - and in order to formulate these stories in each photograph, he must photograph with intent. "I like to photograph purposefully," says Ricardo. "First is, I don't make a photograph just because I can make a photograph. I make a photograph because I want to have that photograph.
"I can make a great composition just about anywhere. I mean, any professional photographer can, but I can also - and then I realized after a certain point that I don't want to own these things. Why make a photograph? I make a photograph when I have something to say, and that's the purposeful aspect of it."
Click on the audio bar above to listen to Ricardo's full Artist Dialogue, and find more of his work at www.ricardobarros.com.
To see Ricardo's Entanglement of Space and Time exhibition online, click here.
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