Jonas Becker

Becker is an
interdisciplinary visual artist whose photography and video installations
explore the formation of cultural mythologies around specific sites and
geography, collapsing what we see with what we hope, fear, or believe. He is
particularly interested in scientific hypotheses, utopian manifestos, religious
beliefs, and other forms of collective desire. He uses camera, editing, and
projection to destabilize these myths, disrupting normative signifiers of space
and time. He has exhibited internationally, most recently in solo shows at
the Craft & Folk Art Museum, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History,
LAXART, and Shulamit Gallery in LA. In addition to his studio practice, Becker
is founding director of the Mobile Pinhole Project, an organization that uses a giant, mobile pinhole camera to bring
photography workshops to children in neighborhoods across Los
Angeles. Read more at beckerprojects.com.

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