Artmedia Gallery is pleased to present Further than Memory. Intimate Distances, the first solo exhibition by Amanda Bradley, which brings together a selection of the photographic body of work developed by the artist over the past four years. This exhibit is a moment in the exploration still in progress that Amanda carries out in the relations between place, time, memory, belonging, and identity, seeing them through her own experience.

It could be said at the outset that the exhibition works practically as a single installation of images made up of small sets. Each set is located in a different wall of the room and, in some way, functions as an individual container of the discursive keys that the show proposes as a whole. Rather than building a narrative, Amanda creates a situation in which perception and sensibility stand on the difference  —every image is different to the others— and the repetition —in every set there are, more or less, similar representational elements than in the others.

If place and time appear as the concepts that define the axis of Amanda's work, it is because images refer both to the intimate space —the house— and to the outer space —the habitat— through a repertoire in which all the places concatenate each other and coexist simultaneously. That is, the artist proposes a visual construction that deactivates the possibility of photographies to function as points of an itinerary and cancels their specific time. So, place and time in Amanda's work are compacted and condensed: all sites exist superimposed on each other at the same moment.

With this artistic strategy, Amanda displays her understanding of both personal memory and belonging, as well as identity, as multiple, cumulative, and de-hierarchized, which means equal to several, summative, and fluid.

About the artist

She was born and raised in Miami, Florida. Bradley received her BFA from New World School of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in Notices in a Mutable Terrain at Fundacion Pablo Atchugarry; It will never become quite familiar to you at Oolite Arts, RCS: 76-100 at Swampspace Gallery; The Passing of Time at the Alfred DuPont Building; american fine arts, an allegory for americas at Art Movement LA, California and Current Projects in Little Haiti, Florida; and In This Moment at PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, amongst others.

About the curator

Cuban-born, José Antonio Navarrete resided in Venezuela for two decades. He currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. He is a critic, researcher, and independent curator of art and visual culture, with an extensive written production, who recently began to practice art photography and video. His last published book was Escribiendo sobre fotografía en América Latina. Antología de textos 1925-1970, edited by Centro de Fotografía, Montevideo, in 2018.

About the gallery

Artmedia Gallery was founded in 2012. With a location in Little River, Miami, Florida, the gallery has the mission to exhibit and promote contemporary art. One of the gallery’s central objectives is to explore the vast possibilities of the expanded notion of art through media technology, with photography and video as its core interest.