Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid". Wrapped in Plastic.

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid". Wrapped in Plastic.

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of digital by artist Melissa Gamez-Herrera, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Te Digo Que Lo Llevo En La Sangre (I’m Telling You That I Carry It In My Blood)".

Work of art of Type on onionskin paper by artist Melissa Gamez-Herrera, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Te Digo Que Lo Llevo En La Sangre (I’m Telling You That I Carry It In My Blood)".

Work of art of found wooden chair, Wrangler blue jean by artist Melissa Gamez-Herrera, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Te Digo Que Lo Llevo En La Sangre (I’m Telling You That I Carry It In My Blood)".

Work of art of digital by artist Melissa Gamez-Herrera, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Te Digo Que Lo Llevo En La Sangre (I’m Telling You That I Carry It In My Blood)".

Work of art of digital by artist Melissa Gamez-Herrera, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Te Digo Que Lo Llevo En La Sangre (I’m Telling You That I Carry It In My Blood)".

Work of art of Four Unique Gelatin Silver Photograms by artist Stephanie Gerhart, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Skin Deep" digital exhibition (due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Work of art of digital mock-up file by artist Stephanie Gerhart, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Skin Deep" digital exhibition (due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Work of art of digital mock-up file by artist Stephanie Gerhart, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Skin Deep" digital exhibition (due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Work of art of Archival Pigment Print from Lumen Print by artist Stephanie Gerhart, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Skin Deep" digital exhibition (due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Work of art of Five Unique Gelatin Silver Photograms by artist Stephanie Gerhart, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Skin Deep" digital exhibition (due to COVID-19 pandemic).

Work of art of inkjet archival print by artist Siyu Ning, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Floating Life".

Work of art of inkjet archival print by artist Siyu Ning, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Floating Life".

Work of art of inkjet archival print by artist Siyu Ning, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Floating Life".

Photography, as a way of recording, is often high-definition and highly descriptive. Therefore, photography has a close relationship with visual perception. In my soft and abstract photographic images, the particularity of time and place is deliberately diluted, and the traditional objects in the photographic images are eliminated to challenge the viewer to locate themselves in relation to the photographs. The ambiguity of the photograph stimulates the viewer's self-consciousness to the greatest extent, while also spurring profound examination of the particular ways one expects photographs to affect them.

Brachaid is a collection of photographs that explore the blindness of our perspective that is informed by images. By photographing peripheral landscapes like wastewater processing facilities, the edges of temporary streams, and stormwater basins, the project uses the landscape and its perceived neutrality to foreground how the production of images constructs our perception. The work in Brachaid emphasizes the production of images, from subject and framing choices to the use of imaging software, to demonstrate that such production is regularly and radically obscured in most of the images we consume, and that this same structure exists in our lived reality.

This work is a developing portrait of women workers who are involved in labor rights advocacy within the context of the maquiladora (assemblage factory) industry in Mexico. I have traveled to do research in Mexico by making photographs and through collecting recorded testimonies from the women workers I come to meet through an organization called the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras. The resulting artwork I make includes photographs, handmade books, video, sculpture and works on paper. Ultimately, my translation of the empowerment and stories of these women workers into works of art are at the center of my practice.

With this work, I investigate the mental and physical toll of the past and the dissonance that often occurs as we age through the use of experimental cameraless techniques. By placing photographic materials directly against my skin during performative acts of self-care, I document my body as I reflect on the damage it suffered as a result of my childhood as a competitive gymnast, which is being exacerbated by the effects of age and time. The resulting photographs are a poetic self-reflection on my physical form that embodies my struggle to understand and accept my deteriorating body.

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Type on onionskin paper by artist Melissa Gamez-Herrera, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Te Digo Que Lo Llevo En La Sangre (I’m Telling You That I Carry It In My Blood)".

Work of art of Wrangler blue jeans by artist Melissa Gamez-Herrera, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Te Digo Que Lo Llevo En La Sangre (I’m Telling You That I Carry It In My Blood)".