Photography Without Camera
February 24, 2019 - March 4, 2019
Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut, San Francisco, CA 94133
Photography Without Camera is an annual exhibition curated by Sang Chi Liu. This exhibition series aims to critique the role of the camera in contemporary art, as well as its use as a tool of everyday documentary, surveillance, and investigation. The photograph as a physical object has been surrounded by the discourse of its material nature, but photography can be more than the material itself. This exhibition focuses on the concepts that photographs bring to us in the contemporary moment. Sang Chi encourages artists to view photography as a concept in order to escape the restriction of photographic materials, and to create new ways of thinking about how documentary visual culture has been formed and constructed.
Artists On View
Christian Bissett
Lexygius Sanchez Calip
Henry Chambers
Yangyi Chen
Julia Fairbrother
Giuliana Funkhouser
Tianhu Kang
Xiaoying Li
Sang Chi Liu
Mengmeng Lu
Qi Shen
Image: Exhibition opening view from "Photography Without Camera" Image © Frank Thomas.