Three Hands, 2006, Roger Ballen

Skotia Gallery’s 1st photography biennial features work by seventeen artists from thirteen countries, selected from among thousands. Included in the show are Polixeni Papapetrou, published in Aperture magazine issue 184, and Roger Ballen, published in issue 173. Click here, to see a video on Skotia’s website, where Papapetrou speaks about her work. Tonight is the collector’s champagne preview. Tickets are $20 at the door. Tomorrow night is the public opening with many of the artists.

Opening reception
Friday, May 7, 2010
5:30-7:30 pm

Exhibition on view
May 7-June 4, 2010

Skotia Gallery
150 W. Marcy St, Ste 103
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Be sure to check out Australian artist Polixeni Papapetrou‘s latest exhibition at Foley Gallery. “Polixeni Papapetrou: Games of Consequence” will open on September 4th (a busy night for Aperture artists!) as does Aperture Gallery’s Invasion 68 Prague, photographs by Josef Koudelka, so be sure to catch both. Read the press release here, to learn more about exhibition and the artist’s work and her use of the Australian landscape and adolescent models to explore the concept of youth and the “wonderfully heterogeneous dimensions of childhood, where the fear and danger mix with the angelic.” Aperture magazine readers will recall that we featured the work of Papapetrou in Issue 184, Fall 2006, specifically, her series Haunted Country. “I tried to capture feelings about Australia, but also about children and their eternal vulnerability in both the natural and social orders,” states the artist. This is the second solo exhibition of Polixeni Papeptrou’s photography at Foley Gallery. Her first exhibition included work from the Haunted Country series.

Aperture is pleased to have a work from Polixeni Papapetrou still available in our limited-edition

photographs program from the Haunted Country series. Prints can be viewed in our limited-edition room, or email prints@aperture.org with any questions.