Exhibition: Portraits of America

ArtIdentity
Written By Joshua Sariñana

Gallery installation of the group show, Portraits of America

Joshua Sariñana’s work was featured in Portrait of America, a group exhibition at Fabrik Projects in Los Angeles, showcasing the winners of the 2018 Portrait of America contest. The exhibition, running from November 23 to December 14, 2019, examined the evolving identity of the United States through photography, offering diverse perspectives on what it means to be American.

Sariñana’s contribution, drawn from his series Representation of Hidden Communication, focuses on access to hidden academic spaces, particularly neuroscience research. Using a manual large-format camera and experimental pull-apart instant film, the work visually mimics scientific data acquisition. The composition juxtaposes raw data (represented by the opaque positive) with the refined interpretation of research findings (represented by the inverted negative), underscoring how scientists extract meaning from complex information. His piece reflects both the unseen labor of scientific discovery and the broader themes of representation and identity within American society.

Joshua Sariñana

Joshua Sariñana, PhD, obtained his degrees in neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed his doctoral thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sariñana’s multi-disciplinary art projects bridge art, science, and media. He has received several grants for his art projects, exhibited his work nationally and internationally, and has received numerous awards for his photographic work.

He combines his science communications background with his neuroscience and art practice. Sariñana has provided his expertise to WIRED Magazine, MIT Technology Review, MIT News, and as an invited speaker for the Neurohumanities series at Trinity College in Dublin.

http://joshuasarinana.com/
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