La Furia del Tiempo, An Exhibition At EBMUD, Oakland, California

La Furia del Tiempo, They Fury of Time an individual exhibition by Alejandra Chaverri

Released on: September 4, 2009, 4:00 am
Author: Alejandra Chaverri
Industry: Travel

Exhibition dates: August 25-October 16, 2009
EBMUD Oakland Administration Building
2nds Floor Lobby
375 11th St. (bet. Webster & Franklin)
Oakland, CA

Artist’s reception: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12 noon-1:00 pm

The exhibit is open to the public Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

For more information, call 510.287.0138 or contact the artist: 650.224.1573 or alejandra@achaverri.com

East Bay Municipal Utilities District, EBMUD is hosting an exhibition of 20 large scale photographs created by the Bay Area photographer Alejandra Chaverri. The exhibition includes façades of buildings of Havana and Cienfuegos, Cuba. By using eclectics scale and shooting angles, Alejandra invites the public to reflect on the multilayered used of structures, living spaces, history and history.

In both, Havana and Cienfuegos, dilapidated buildings continue to deteriorate from the relentless tropical climate—salt from the ocean, heavy rainfall, and the occasional hurricane. And the economy of a fifty-year trade embargo bears down on the city—its once grand houses yielding to decades of deprivation, toward a sense of dispossession.

It is uncertain what is going to happen with these structures, the historic architecture of Havana and Cienfuegos. In the same way, these photographs to be seen without the embalming effect of mats and glass—instead, they are coated with encaustic as the medium to finish each work. Like walking down a city street, viewers are encouraged to walk by these images of buildings, to hear the noise of life inside, resisting any fetishism of poverty or preciousness of pathos, hearing the song that animates the city, tracing the circuit of our steps, always moving from one place to the next.

Alejandra Chaverri is a photographer based in the Bay Area. She has been exhibiting her art locally, nationally and internationally for the past six years. Alejandra creates intricate mixed media series of photographs, mostly using encaustic medium, layering, hand deckling, tearing or sewing the prints. Besides her own photography series on social commentaries and creative process, Alejandra works on digitizing documents of historic interest and teaches photography to local community groups and privately.

More about Alejandra Chaverri: http://www.achaverri.com/about.htm
Web site: www.achaverri.com

Contact Details:
For more information, call 510.287.0138
EBMUD Oakland Administration Building
2nds Floor Lobby
375 11th St. (bet. Webster & Franklin)
Oakland, CA