COLLIER SCHORR exhibited at the Second Part of EDIT!

EDIT! Photography and Film from the Ellipse Collection (one of the most important art collections existing in Portugal) at CAV Centro de Artes Visuais. First Part 6 May - 24 June 2007, Second Part 30 June - 9 September 2007
catalogue with reproductions of the works and texts by Albano Silva Pereira, Delfim Sardo and João Rendeiro > www.cav.net4b.pt

foto: Collier Schorr / Lina.Opening Braid, 2001. C-print 120.65 x 95.25 cm. 3/5

Collier Schorr works on reality::fiction. He questions how identity influences nationality, gender and sexuality. Lina on this photo with her magnetic gaze is impregnated with intensity, performance and a feminine presence. It seems a she has super-human power.

In another work the Jewish photographer Collier Schorr portrayed a fictional series of soldiers to confront the Arian myth. Through these photographs, Schorr tries to recreate a new ideal for the German soldier, more human and less powerful.

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Collier Schorr, born 1963 in New York, USA, lives/works in Brooklyn, NY, studied at the School of Visual Arts and participated in the Whitney Biennial in 2002.

"The title Edit!, imperative, refers to that urge to format the art experience as an experience constructed through the manipulation of references to the Real, unburdened by proselytism nor indifference, in the intersection of concepts, precepts and affects that invite us to restore the expectation in the world and the body in the relation with the work of art, with cinema as the inevitable condition." Delfim Sardo, Curator.