Curatorial Tour with Monique Machicao y Priemer Ferrufino

Working in New York City between the Stonewall uprising of 1969 and the onset of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Peter Hujar captured a pivotal cultural moment in piercing black-and-white photographs. Alongside these iconic images, Hujar’s work is interwoven with haunting depictions of nature. His photographs of the East River and the Hudson River in New York City can be read as symbols of the fluidity of analogue photography: not only the ever‑moving subjects, but also the complex processes of the darkroom challenge the notion of photography as a static medium. 

The work of artist Liz Deschenes is likewise grounded in a deep engagement with the material possibilities of photography. Deschenes focuses on the essential elements of the medium – light, chemistry and time – and uses her practice to question what photography can be.