The Unperson Project Triptych

The Unperson Project: At Desk by Susana Moyaho & Andrea K. Tejeda.

Pigment Print (2021)

The Unperson Project: Tree by Susana Moyaho & Andrea K. Tejeda. Pigment Print 2021.

The Unperson Project: London Bridge by Susan Moyaho & Andrea K. Tejeda. Pigment Pring 2021.

THE UNPERSON PROJECT

This project is an archive of oblivion. We made an open call inviting people to donate photographs to us in which they had erased someone from the image, either as a means to forget them, or to forget a moment in their past. This process is called vaporization and once someone is vaporized they become an Unperson, a term created by George Orwell in his novel 1984. We focus on exploring the value of the photograph as a medium in which attempts to inflict oblivion are perpetrated and how the blank spaces, burn marks, cut out faces, or scratched off ink take the place of someone. These spaces imply the presence of the ones who went from apotheosis to damnatio memoriae. Once the participants donate the image to us we become archivists and curators, cataloguing the photographs, and deciding on their place in the archive. Additionally they now have the potential to be re-contextualised to become part of a new form of exhibition. These new material forms create a different experience to that originally intended by the participant, so that by making them public they also give up their control over them. By doing this we make visible the attempts to achieve oblivion, questioning the idea of the photograph as a private possession.

The Unperson Project is created by artists Susana Moyaho and Andrea Tejeda K.

Andrea Tejeda (Mexico, 1983)

www.andreatejedak.com
Photographer and professor based in Mexico City. She has a Master's Degree in Mass Media and Communications. Her work has been exhibited in shows in Mexico, Spain, Guatemala, France, Chile, Italy, Peru and USA. In 2016 her portfolio got selected for Premio Descubrimiento PhotoEspana and in 2019 she did an artist residency in WabiSabi Residencia in Argentina. She is one of the selected artists for Proyecto Imaginario Latinoamérica 2020-2021 and in 2020 was invited as a guest speaker at TEDxTukuy.
Her work has been featured in publications such as Der Greif, Tierra Adentro, Lenscratch, LA Times, Harper's Bazaar, Vice, Letras Libres, Food & Wine, Punch, amongst others and she has collaborated with editorial groups like Routledge, CONACULTA, Editorial Planeta, Paradiso Editores and Karnac Books.

Susana Moyaho (Mexico, 1983)
www.susana-moyaho.com

She has a Bachelors degree in Communication Sciences from Universidad De Las Américas Puebla and a Master degree in fashion photography from Escuela Superior de Artes y Espectáculos TAI, Madrid, Spain.
She captures scenes from daily life that include intimate portraits of friends, strangers and herself.
Her work has been shown in international exhibitions and published in magazines like Aire, Accent, Rolling Stone Mexico, Chilango, Travel & Leisure, Lenscratch, The Aquarian Daily, and Der Greif.
Her adventures also include being a still photograher in international documentaries like Insurgentes, and short films like Silla Eléctrica para moscas.
Invited speaker at TEDxTukuy 2020.

Mark Sink, a private art consultant, represents and curates local and international cutting-edge fine art photography.
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