Michael Weinstein

For postmodern photographer Magdalena Correa, Barcelona's new ultra-modernist World Trade Center is an opportunity to evoke the complex emotions that we experience in the antiseptic and alienating temples of commerce when we attend to the coarse and humble details that disturb their slick perfection. The most successful of Correa's large-format black-and-white images take advantage of the defiantly angular architecture of the building to frame more accessible subjects like a simple table surrounded by chairs or a brightly illuminated cityscape that subverts any thought that we have vaulted into globalization unburdened of our less-than-streamlined past. Correa's deep visual intelligence achieves the rare feat of transiting from concept to feeling; she teaches us that we can be at home in the technological society if we are careful to look for reminders of our disordered embodied nature.

Magdalena Correa shows at Instituto Cervantes, 875 North Michigan, Suite 2940, (312)335-1996, through January 22.

(2005-01-03)

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