Biography:
Katya Brailovsky (b. 1965) is a photographer born and based in Mexico City. She is recipient of the three-year grant awarded by the Mexican Endowment for Culture and the Arts. In 1999 she was awarded the first prize in the Mexico City Photography Biennial. Brailovsky's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, including Untitled at the Enrique Guerrero Gallery in 2000, Coartadas/Alabis curated by Magali Arreola for the Witte de With Centrum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst in the Netherlands, City of Fiction in the Mercer Union Gallery in Toronto Canada, and Vertigos y Delirios in the Centro Cultural España in Mexico City.
Statement:
If you can see it in your mind, you will find it in your life.
e-fortune cookie
Like a taxidermist I attempt to dissect and preserve the functionings of my memory: I want to illustrate how I remember and consequently how I construct my idea of what is real. Trapped in my human condition, I am only able to see fragments of what really happens; therefore the forms I fashion are questionable - like small Frankensteins, perhaps-. By doing this, I hope to elicit, in myself, and the spectator that exquisite vertigo which occurs when the tenuous border of the real is revealed through looking at photography. |
