DEAR DAVE, CONVERSATIONS: Domingo Milella in Conversation with Stephen Frailey

Photograph © Domingo Milella

Nemrut Dagi, Turkey 2013

Photograph © Domingo Milella

Myra, Turkey 2012

Photograph © Domingo Milella

Gavur Kale, Turkey, 2013

DEAR DAVE, presents

DOMINGO MILELLA

in conversation with

STEPHEN FRAILEY

SUNDAY,  October 25TH, 2015

SVA Theatre
12 PM

333 West 23rd St, NYC
RSVP: info@deardavemagazine.com

DEAR DAVE, presents a talk by Artist Domingo Milella about the process of making his recently published monograph, Domingo Milella (STEIDL, 2015). Inspired by the subject of cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, Domingo Milella  documents photographs from what turned into a global journey of the oldest lands and the archaic world. 

"It's hard to talk about photography without facing issues of time, memory and death - not as stereotypical archetypes, but as challenging and malleable entities of culture and nature." – Domingo Milella

Domingo Milella, Steidl

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Domingo Milella was born in 1981 in Bari, where he lived until the age of 18. After moving to New York, he studied photography at the School of Visual Arts under the guidance of Stephen Shore. He worked with Massimo Vitali then Thomas Struth was for him an influential mentor. He currently lives between London and Bari. His work has been exhibited at the Foam Museum in Amsterdam, the 54th Venice Biennale and Les Rencontres d ‘Arles.

SHEN WEI: Invisible Atlas at Flowers Gallery

 Shen Wei, Tear, 2013
Ink on archival pigment print

 Shen Wei, Sarangkot, 2014
Acrylic on archival pigment print

Shen Wei, Mask, 2013
Metallic ink on archival pigment print

Chinese artist Shen Wei series Invisible Atlas is inspired by the Chinese philosophy of Qi - an unseen life force and a method of healing. For Shen Wei, this mysterious vital energy is poetic and seductive. Using his own body and personality as a subject, he envisions the internal and external forces channeling through the body and its surroundings. Drawing from memories of his childhood, as well as religious, historical and mythological imagery, the narrative is interwoven with elements of fantasy. Photographic subjects of the figure, objects and landscape are combined with minimally rendered drawings, where luminous dots, circles, arcs, arrows and waves give tangible form to imagined flows and concentrations of Qi....read more here 

To coincide with his solo exhibition, Shen Wei is also curating a group show Second Thought at Flowers Gallery, featuring work by Shiyuan Liu, Tingwei Li and Peter Glenn Oakley.

Shen Wei: Invisible Atlas to February 28, 2015

Flowers Gallery/NY

529 West 20th Street, NYC

Shen Wei discussing his work with me at Flowers Opening

All images Courtesy of the artist and Flowers Gallery, London / New York