#MobileMoments, an exhibit opening at HCC Central Art Gallery on January 22, examines the emerging art form of mobile photography and the development of smartphones and social media as means of creative expression. Curators and artists Karina Filipovich and Eduardo Portillo selected the images by following artists on the Instagram app, focusing on images that capture specific moments: serious, haunting, beautiful, abstract, sensual, elegant. In this tightly curated exhibition, the curators propose that Instagram can be viewed as a modern tool to explore, redefine, and reshape photography within contemporary art.
#MobileMoments demonstrates the way that artists are able to use Instagram, a casual platform, to create rich and serious images on par with contemporary photographic practice. While Instagram-image exhibits have begun to pop up in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, this is the first in Texas. Where other Instagram exhibits have revolved around a theme, this exhibit is as much a reflection of the interests of the curators as of the artists. Artists include Joe Fertitta (Tucson, AZ), Karina Filipovich (Houston, TX), Olivia Garner (Houston, TX), Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola (Houston, TX), Deniz Kabuloglu (Houston, TX), Robert Schober (Los Angeles, CA), Simon Taylor (London, UK), and Chiara Wood (New York, NY).
In the back gallery, visitors can become a part of the exhibit by uploading their own images that respond to the images in the show by including a #MobileMomentshou. The pictures will run in a live feed/loop for the duration of the exhibit. The fifty best images will be curated into a #MobileMomentshou Blurb book for purchase in March on Blurb.com.
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