Claudia Ammirata returns to ArtMedia Gallery with a new solo exhibition, under the title Sense of Impermanence, that brings together the work she has developed over the last two years. Once again, as in her previous series also exhibited here, Fix Me—on view on our website—, the artist carries out an in-depth exploration of a complex area of the human experience. At ArtMedia Gallery, we have programmed this exhibition with the satisfaction of disseminating a work that combines the best of the direct photographic tradition of inquiry into subjectivity with visual speculation on the notion of time and contemporary representational resources.

Closer to the Buddhist understanding of the concept of impermanence than to Western philosophical models that evaluate changes in all spheres of the world in terms of success or failure, Ammirata's series focuses on small details and incidents that allude to the transience and fugacity of human existence. In a way, this series is also about how we relate to our emotions and feelings. Or saying the same, how we situate them into our search for a place in a world in constant flux.

Ammirata has wanted to clarify, with her work strategies, that she approaches these issues from the place of photography as representation, without mediating the verbalized word?except for those that base their enunciation on artistic arguments. Nevertheless, in her case, it is a representation of undoubtedly poetic inclination that, more than a record of things, seems to be frequently the trace that results from a slight contact with them. Mostly, her camera does not like to rest on the photographed motif: it prefers to brushes it.

About the artist

Claudia Ammirata (Venezuelan, lives and works between Miami and Caracas) started photographing at a young age while living in Paris, France. She pursued her interest in photography by taking courses at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. Her first solo exhibition, Fix Me, was presented at Artmedia Gallery, Miami, in 2019. Her work has been included in group shows and art fairs, such as: PhotoPlace Gallery OPEN; PhotoPlace, Middleburry. VT, 2020, and PINTA Miami, Crossing Cultures, Miami, FL, 2019.  She is the author of the book Ephemeral Beauty, edited in 2017.

About the curator

Cuban-born, José Antonio Navarrete lives and works in Miami, FL. A critic, researcher, and independent curator of art and visual culture, he also practices 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. In 2019, the Cuban Legacy Gallery at MDC College exhibited his curatorial project Remaking Miami. Josefina Tarafa’s Photographs of the 1970s. He has contributed texts to numerous books, including Alejandro C. Del Conte. Memorias de un soñador, published in Buenos Aires in 2021.

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 based on photography and video practices. One of the gallery’s central objectives is to explore the vast possibilities of the expanded notion of art through media technology.