Artmedia Gallery is proud to present the exhibition The Breath of the Wind. Photography & Video by Magüi Trujillo. Works in the exhibition exemplify how wide-ranging and risky, as well as subtle and refined, is Trujillo’s research on photography language. She brings to the gallery a series of artworks produced in the practice of straight photography. Some of them are in color and others in black and white. Each work is composed of a specific combination of various photographs, so they have different sizes and formal structures. Videos are also based on photos which have been animated by the slow movement of a video camera and the suggestive record of breathing sounds. However, the same concept and pervading mood link and articulate the multiple artistic resources the artworks show.

Trujillo has a long career in the practice of photography. For many years, she has used photography intended as a tool aimed at a consistent introspection, that is, in her case, to a self-examination in which the real world —especially nature— is assumed both as a looking within herself and as a recognizable appearance.

In The Breath of the Wind the artist continues her visual exploration of form, texture, and the matter of nature’s physical elements. Consequently, this series has the pictorial configuration of a landscape or, better, acquires its visual self-definition in the form of representation usually related by artists and beholders to the landscape art gender. However, the artist conceives her photographic and video work outside of time and geographical specifications. Nature is for her, rather than a reason for landscape, a space for her spiritual searching through visual means, the best place to find images able to reveal her deeper self. Nature is, accordingly, her container and the source of her interior self-portraits, understanding the latter phrase as the metaphoric expression the Romantics would have liked to hear.

About the artist

Magüi Trujillo lives and works in Paris. Her photography and video production have been included in group and solo exhibitions in France, Germany, The United States, Portugal, Morocco, England, Spain, and Venezuela, her birth country. Her series Silencio Plural was selected in 2002 to be part of the National Library of France Collection. The Breath of the Wind was selected for the edition of a book in the Book Machine event Paris Photo 2015, France. Her video-arts are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas.

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 culture and visual arts, with an extensive written production, who recently began to practice 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.