Exhibitions
Lucia Fainzilber | Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall
Date and place
Place: Praxis NY
Start Date: July 14 2022
End Date: September 10 2022
Description
Praxis is pleased to present Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall, the solo exhibition by photographer Lucia Fainzilber. The exhibition will be open from Thursday, July 14th to Saturday, September 10th, 2022. Our Summer hours are Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm, at 501 W 20th Street, New York, NY, 10011.
There are few things in this world that we humans did not invent. Such is the case with flowers. We try to hold on to their beauty, domesticate and understand them, although there is an intricate intelligence to flowers that we yet ignore. Mounting from the darkness of their roots to become fully bloomed in the light of the surface, they conquer their existence by emerging from below. They develop a complex machinery to overcome traps and they manufacture a seductive mechanism to revolt against the dangers that can interfere with their survival. Flowers are condemned to immobility from their birth to their death. Therefore, they know better than us how to stand up and rise in this rebellion for existence and rise into a moving and active world. We should then see Flowers as prodigious examples of in-submission, courage, perseverance and ingenuity.
Flowers constitute a backdrop to everyday life: lining highways and framing cities and parks, adorning our houses and gardens, growing and dying throughout the seasons. Despite this perception of flowers as background information, they are integral to the human experience, as they hold the power to nourish and heal, to poison and delight, to put us to sleep and intoxicate us, or even trigger an expansion of consciousness. At birth and death, blossoms are prerequisites, as they also are at festive mealtimes and celebrations. We give flowers as tokens of love, friendship, homage, and hospitality.
With these portraits I intend to honor Flower’s limelight by witnessing their subtle performances and embodiments of power while they overlook humankind and its belief in the ability to control global economies, geographical histories, and evolution. I am inviting Flowers to stand in the light, claiming the prominence of their existence.
My hope is that this exhibition will reveal different ways of seeing, so that a Magnolia tree across the street or a rose across a table won’t appear quite so unfamiliar. Instead, seeing these plants in their intimacy and reciprocity will make us look at ourselves a little differently too, as we are all embroidered into this tapestry, this bouquet of life.
-Lucia Fainzilber, 2022
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Lucia Fainzilber
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1986. Studied Costume Making Design for Theatre workshops at Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Art Direction in Filmmaking at The University of Cine in Buenos Aires. After graduating in 2008, worked as a colorist in postproduction, color-correcting movies in a Visual Mastering Studio before moving to New York to study at the International Center of Photography (ICP). While working as a fashion photographer she also developed her personal work. Since 2014, she has been represented by Praxis Art Gallery in NY and participated in group shows en LA, Miami and London as well as having her own solo shows “And Spring Again”, “Somewear”, “Wild Flowers” and “The Cookbook”. In 2017 she participated in a group show during Paris Photo in France and received the First Prize at the International Fine Art Photography Awards from the Paris College of Art. In October 2018 she has been part of the Barcelona Biennale of Photography and received the Bronze Prize from the Prix de la Photographie Emerging artists photo prize and Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards. In 2019 her series “Paradise” has been exhibited in Gericke + Paffrath Gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the two consecutive years 2021 and 2022 her pieces “Untitled #31” and “Untitled #30” from the series Somewear have been selected to be auctioned at the Photography Auction at the Phillips Auction House in London, UK resulting in two sold out pieces for this series. The voice she developed as an artist allowed her to shot commercial work for clients like Daily Harvest, My Ceremonia, Revlon, Adidas, and many other brands making both worlds converge.
