Blue Sun / Sol Azul
New York: Capricious, 2024.
ISBN: 9781734656251
Condition: As New
Hardcover
First Edition
141 pp,
10.5 x 12.5 inches
Blue Sun, the debut monograph from Genesis Báez spanning a decade of photographic work, offers a glimmering examination of matriarchal kinship and the Puerto Rican diaspora through studied images of the elemental and generational. Raised in New England and Puerto Rico, Báez’s work is enmeshed in the geographies of both, while remaining in the currents between. Images spiral outward from the intersecting social and environmental conditions shaped by colonization in Puerto Rico, and subsequent mass migration, of which Báez is a descendent. Here, Báez oscillates in the reverberations of displacement and the continual act of place-making. Blue Sun beams with the sensory: sound, tactility, heat hitting cold. Photographs rustle with movement, drafts of one world moving through another. Báez's practice is an invocation of the fragmentary — temporal and spatial — through which the camera and its mirrored eye reflect and translate a surfacing congruence. From this fluxing space, Báez captures imprints of the absent and hidden in transitory moments of focus. Genesis Báez is based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University, a BFA in Photography with honors from MassArt, and is an alumni of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Blue Sun includes essays by Hilda Lloréns and Elle Pérez, in English and Spanish with translations by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa. Designed by Studio Lin. Item #27977
Price: $65.00
