Martha Naranjo Sandoval & Genesis Báez: 'Small Death' [Talk]

A conversation between artists Genesis Báez and Martha Naranjo Sandoval, discussing their recent publications: Blue Sun / Sol Azul, published by Capricious Publishing, and Small Death, published by MACK. Báez and Sandoval will look at overlapping themes across their respective work, including deeply personal and often beautiful notions of home and family.

Saturday 28 February 
13:00-15:00

Printed Matter
231 11th Ave
New York, NY
10001 
United States 

About Small Death

Small Death collects photographs made by the artist Martha Naranjo Sandoval over her first years living in New York after emigrating from Mexico City. Shaped around Naranjo Sandoval’s original contact sheets and film reels, it comprises an artist’s book unfolding in tactile and iterative form. Sandoval’s work moves between streetscapes, nude self-portraits, compositions of found forms, and tender photographs of her family, all suffused with a sensitivity to the ways in which the artist’s surroundings, loved ones, and home continuously shape her sense of self and belonging. The artist’s husband, parents, and siblings are pictured in their homes as well as in more dislocating rural and urban landscapes between the US and Mexico, tracing a continuum between displacement and rootedness.