Jennifer Garza-Qcuen | Art Lecture | University of Nevada, Reno 2016
In this lecture Jennifer talks about the different countries she has been to. She has been to 7 different countries and I was envious when she said that. Because I would like to travel around the world as well. She also stated that she loves to travel and travels to a place to explore the area. After she re-tells her store about her own experience of the place with photographs of the environment and the people who live there. She talks about the difference between our trajectory vs origin. Another she illustrated was our interaction with travel.
She presented the topic of where are your origins. Is it where you were born, where you live or where you grew up? In America we are full of people who have migrated from different countries and these questions are not easily answered. She illustrates her photos in a a story like fashion, as if she was reading a book.
The medium that she uses are photography of people and landscapes, poems, live performance, she also takes documentary photographs, for example old photos of criminals, and uses them as the art piece. I find these pieces very interesting in the fact that it tells a story. These are pictures of people who have committed a crime. The pictures are abstract and have a beautiful distressed look to them. Visually, striking and in certain pictures you can kind of make out a face of a character. You can definitely tell that time has claimed most of these pictures and they will never be able to recover the original photo. She got these photos from an old jail in Detroit which was just abandoned. She walked into this abandoned building and picked up these photos.
Criminal Abstractions
I asked her a question and it was "What is it that inspires you, to do your art?" She replied with the fact that she loves to travel and just traveling in general. She has a passion to just travel to places and explore the area. When she travels she also tried to get to know that people in that area. She likes to meet new people and learn things about them. She likes to heard their story and she will ask them if it would be okay to use their story for her art. This was one of the ways she got her content. When she was exploring the area she has traveled to she would ask people their story and if they were receptive Jennifer then asked them permission to tell their story in her art.
I really like her approach to getting content for her art. It seems amazingly simple, but I know it has its kinks. Getting to know a person in a genuine sense something we don't do a lot of these days. I really like that about Jennifer Garza-Qcuen work.
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