Wave Pool is proud to present Photography & Tenderness, an exhibition guest curated by artists Lorena Molina and Eliza Gregory, and featuring the visual art of Erina Alejo, Nydia Blas, William Camargo, Rajkamal Kahlon, Stephanie Cuyubamba Kong, Jesse Ly, Gabriel Garcia Roman, Leonard Suryajaya, Gemma-Rose Turnbull, and Carla Williams.

“We can’t deny the ways in which photography has been and continues to be used as a tool of misrepresentation, imperialism, colonization, and racism,” write Molina and Gregory in their curatorial statement. “How can we acknowledge the violence that photography so often exerts, and still use it to make something tender?”

Drawing from influential artists that are confronting, building on, and tackling the historical and contemporary photographic gaze, Gregory and Molina create a dynamic exhibition of questions.

What does a tender present and future look like? How do we build a society that is different–more loving, more accepting, more responsive–than the one we have now? How do we galvanize ourselves–as artists and audience–toward those acts of radical imagination? In which ways are artists questioning and challenging predominant narratives as an act of love?

Photography & Tenderness runs September 24th - November 5th, 2022

Support for this 2022 FotoFocus Biennial exhibition was provided by FotoFocus. “Photography & Tenderness” is part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial.