“The Library...the City: Photographic Visions” Exhibition
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The BA is going to inaugurate “The Library...the City: Photographic Visions” Exhibition on Thursday, 3 August 2017. The inauguration is going to be held at 3:00 pm at the East Exhibition Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center (BACC).
The exhibition will be held as part of the BA 15th anniversary celebration, commemorating the commencement of the Library’s various activities in the fields of plastic and visual arts. A participation announcement was made for amateur and professional photographers. The winning works, which fit the event’s theme, were chosen by a judging committee to participate in the exhibition. The exhibition will showcase 105 works by 57 photographers. Said artworks vary in simulating reality through documenting different Alexandrian locations or scenes of everyday life, such as fisherman at work, pedestrians, or individual portraits. Other participants were captivated by the aesthetics of form; they focused on how items are joint, color relationships and their proximity on different surfaces, or specific elements from nature, such as portraying a tree branch and its mystically successive elements and features as an attempt from the artists to present their own world and personal perception.
Other artists chose a different context through which they created tales in their photographs. Some artists attempted to create a mythical atmosphere; a number of them created photographs that resemble Chinese landscape ink drawings, while others used their bodies as an integral part within the frame of the photograph as a means of bringing the work to an aspect that deals with body more controversially.
Some photographs depicted scenes within the halls and hallways of the BA. Such scenes varied greatly as one photograph presented an outlandish atmosphere by adding a dubious element to a common scene within the Library. In other photographs, the image was created through pursuing and catching light and bright spots. This established a newfangled relationship between light and shade; one in which the aesthetics of the location rest within the lines and intersections created by the presented adjacent spaces.
All these works are attempts by the photographers to look for and to reach a more vast and welcoming place within the frame of the photograph and beyond the generic scene of life.
The exhibition will also coincide with World Photography Day, as several international organization celebrate photography in August.
The exhibition will be open to the public daily from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm until Saturday, 26 August 2017. Fridays are off, and opening hours will be from 12:00 noon to 9:00 pm on Saturdays and official holidays.