Alessandro Bo
Exhibition Opening
Saturday June 21, 12PM - 4PM
Inauguración de la exposición
Sábado 21 de junio, 12PM - 4PM
Alessandro Bo is the 2024-25 Diane Dammeyer Fellow at Columbia College Chicago. Originally from Mexico City (b. 1982) and currently based in Oaxaca, Bo’s photographic research present in Chicago through summer consists of two components. The first component exhibited at the Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago documents the Atoyac River, located on the outskirts of Oaxaca City, using its course as a reference point to provide an outsider’s perspective on this evolving territory and investigates the effects of gentrification in Oaxaca de Juárez, driven by tourism and American expatriates. The second component feature at Pueblo Unido Gallery, Walking Practices, focuses on documenting the urban periphery in collaboration with students from Columbia College Chicago and emerging photographers from Oaxaca. This urban archive created through a series of aesthetic walking practices along the city’s margins includes photographs, video footage, and collages.
