Studio Vivian Galban presents Vestiges, the exhibition of the Annual workshop, a space dedicated to research and production where photography is conceived as an expanded territory—a practice that questions the ways of producing and conceptualizing photographic work in the contemporary context.

In a present where images are generated at algorithmic speed and artificial intelligence multiplies versions of the world, Vestiges pauses on the slow, material gesture of photography. Each image is a form of resistance to immediacy, an attempt to preserve what tends to dissolve, to fossilize fragments of the minimal. These photographs are records that hold—like small time capsules—something of the human pulse that produced them.

The exhibition brings together a selection of images from each artist that seem to come from an uncertain time: traces of a possible past or signs of an already–occurred future. Direct shots, analog photography, macrophotography, reframing, alternative photographic processes, and ad hoc objects are some of the resources explored to build these images.

Vestiges invites visitors to reconstruct their own personal map in this atmosphere–reality without geography or time, where the images offer more questions than certainties.

(Texy by Vivian Galban, edition IV at Jorge Mara Gallery)