2018 APERTURE SUMMER OPEN: THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
How do photographs express a moment of rapid change in society, politics, beauty, and self-expression? Selected from more than one thousand submissions, the 2018 Aperture Summer Open, The Way We Live Now, features eighteen artists and photographers seeking to reckon with the currents and contradictions of life in the twenty-first century.
Among the works are powerful chronicles of the crises of opioid addiction and mass incarceration; multilayered portrayals of Latinx, Native American, and queer communities; sweeping accounts of the built environment from Israel to China; and prismatic meditations on African American and diasporic culture, gender, and fashion. Together, the artists in the Summer Open are gathering evidence about how we define images and how images define our lives.
Jamal Nxedlana, Portrait of Langa Mavuso, 2017 © Bubblegum Club
Curated by Siobhán Bohnacker, senior photo editor, the New Yorker; Brendan Embser, managing editor, Aperture magazine; Marvin Orellana, photo editor, New York magazine; and Antwaun Sargent, independent writer and critic
Davide Monteleone, A NEW SILK ROAD 004, 2017 © David Monteleone
The Aperture Summer Open is an annual open-submission exhibition at Aperture Foundation’s gallery that features a wide variety of work drawn from members of our photographic community. Selected annually by a prominent curator or editor, the exhibition seeks to reveal and report on critical themes and trends driving international contemporary photographic practice. The exhibition opens the doors of the foundation to all photographers, both well- and lesser-known, as it fosters and promotes new ideas and talent.
Featured Artists
Bubblegum Club / Diego Camposeco / Camila Falcão / Jillian Freyer / Jonathan Gardenhire / Roei Greenberg / Vincent Hung / Lili Kobielski / Luther Konadu / Gowun Lee / Tyler Mitchell / Davide Monteleone / Philip Montgomery / Christian Sanna / Matthew Shain / Abdo Shanan / Shikeith / Maria Sturm
Exhibition Details
On view: June 28–August 16, 2018, Aperture Gallery, New York
Monday–Thursday & Saturday:
10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Friday: 10:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m.
Closed Sunday
Roei Greenberg, Landscape Painting On Wall, Dining Hall, Kibbutz Yiftach, 2015 © Roei Greenberg
