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Vivian Galban

Valley of Yosemite
From: the Rocky Ford (1872), 2016

Printed on 11x14in Hahnemühle Photo Rag Paper
Uneditioned and unsigned
Certificate of Authenticity

About the Artist:

Vivian Galban’s work unfolds in the field of photography, questioning the support and photographic processes in contemporary times. Her academic activity, teaching role and work in applied technology are part of her artistic research. Vivian Galban subjects the pride of the portrait as a genre of representation with solid roots in art history, to dissolution. After years of obsessively working on the same figure, now she hides her gaze and slips away from the photographic fixation. Up close, it is reduced to a shapeless, flickering field of colored spots. In another movement, the artist makes the body return to the origin of those mysteries that modern individuation exorcised. Mist (2013), Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford-1872 (2015) and Exposure in real time (2019) are some of her most outstanding works where Galbán shows a wide range of technical resources to address experiments that go beyond the quasi-pictorial plane -playing with the composition-decomposition of the image-, the techniques of appropriation of the images, intervening them, dissecting the supports and dissolving them in glass plates, until reaching the “relational exhibition”, a format that allows the artist to exercise deep experimentation with analogue support, actively involving the viewer in the process and in the resulting work. All her work in general, is the product of a point of view that emphasizes the different concepts and photographic techniques beyond the limits of the medium itself, prioritizing the procedures used over the final image, an image that is debated between what is intuited as form and what fades as such, adding to the debate other artistic practices from an interactive, performatic and even digital place.

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