Gonzalo Maggi
Bio
Gonzalo Maggi (1984) is an Argentine artist who lives and works between Buenos Aires and London. He trained as a film director at Universidad del Cine and completed the Artists Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2013) and the FNA–Conti Artists Program (2014). He has also participated in workshops and art clinics with Gabriel Valansi, Alberto Goldenstein, Hernán Marina, and Juan Travnik.
His first solo exhibition, Silencioso pero insiste, took place in 2013 at Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, curated by Alberto Goldenstein. In 2014, he presented Inminencia at Teatro de la Ribera, curated by Juan Travnik. In 2019, he presented Escrito en el cuerpo at the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo in Montevideo, and No despertar la ciudad, curated by Carlos Herrera at Munar, Buenos Aires.
His work is part of the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and private collections in Argentina, the United States, Spain, Switzerland, France, and the United Kingdom.
Since 2018, he has directed Intemperie, a nomadic gallery representing ten Argentine artists, and has worked as a curator on various exhibitions.
Statement
I conceive of photography as a process of construction over time. My work emerges from a prolonged relationship with certain urban spaces. I find a place that draws my attention and return to it until it reveals a latent structure. Only then do I introduce characters and compose carefully staged situations. Post-production functions as a form of montage, where I rearrange fragments, combine different moments in time, and shape spaces that do not exist as such. I seek to resist the immediacy associated with photography and create images that demand a slower gaze.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
