View from my room, 21-10 Broadway Apt 3, Astoria, New York City, 2006
by Featured Artist Arturo Soto
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This month’s Featured Artist Arturo Soto is a Mexican photographer and writer. Soto has published the photobooks In the Heat (2018) and A Certain Logic of Expectations (2021). He holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Oxford and postgraduate degrees from University College London and the School of Visual Arts. He curated the exhibition Foreign Correspondence at the Architectural Association and participated in the first edition of Forecast Platform at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Soto says of his series Some Windows Later:
“We usually perform two actions when looking through a window: we delve into ourselves while looking out at the world. The pictures in Some Windows Later (2002-ongoing) document the cities where I have lived, creating a fragmented narrative that utilizes the window—or its respective view—as a leitmotif to interrogate my relationship with those places. The series, which has developed over time, suggests how the intricate construction of our public and private lives is influenced by the urban landscape that surrounds us…”
View View from my room, 21-10 Broadway Apt 3, Astoria, New York City.
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