Welcome to the Winter Quarter of CCFI
The link between photography and sculpture in conceptual art is fundamental, even though most people perhaps do not recognize this anymore; it’s not enough assigning to photography the task of documentation; the problem is more complex. In conceptual art in its clearest moments, photography displaces or takes on the condition of the object or dismantles the traditional parameters of spatial and material organization. I cannot separate photography from my sculptural practice. I don’t know in advance whether I will need to use photography or whether it will, at the end, become an object. What I am doing, how it ends up as a sign, is all about language, but sometimes it becomes a physical thing, sometimes it is just photography. -Gabriel Orozco
