Public Reception: Friday, November 15, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM as part of our November Reception
In 360-degree panoramic photographs, Ricardo Barros unfolds space and distorts time. Made of dozens of individual shorts over time and digitally stitched together, these photographs depict an event in its entirety, flattened and visible all at once. Single places resist traditional directionality, and a single person exists at multiple locations at the same instant. The result is an infinitely looping narrative, spilling out one edge of the photograph and continuing back at the other. Barros' approach disrupts conventional perceptions of how photography captures one view of one moment in time.
Barros has received the Marlene and David Persky Present Tense Prize, which recognizes an artist whose work exemplifies new practices, artistic risk-taking, and excellence in execution.
/ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ricardo Barros
Ricardo Barros is a photographer, writer, curator, and filmmaker. His works are in the permanent collections of eleven museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Art of São Paulo, Harvard Art Museums, and the Fitchburg Art Museum. In 2004, Barros published Facing Sculpture: A Portfolio of Portraits, Sculpture and Related Ideas, for which Nick Capasso wrote the introduction. Magdalena Abakanowicz, one of the sculptors he portrayed, called it “a work beyond categories.” He was awarded a Fellowship in Photography by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 1984 and 2021. Together with his wife, Heather, he relocated to Fitchburg in 2023.
