Chris Tigra is among the recipients of the Pierre Verger Photography Prize in the Ancestry and Representation category with the series Irradiará.
In the Ancestry and Representation category, essays were considered that address ethnophotography as a possibility of recording and interpreting relational, family, social aspects, among others, in Brazil, guaranteeing the artistic quality of the image recording.
The curatorship of the Collective Exhibition was carried out by Marcelo Campos, chief curator of the Rio Art Museum (MAR), PhD in Visual Arts from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), professor at the Department of Theory and History of Art from the UERJ Institute of Arts and the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts.
"I sew infinity over heads, I dive into the landscape of the mind, I search this place in search of other origins, past, present and future, is it alive or is it dead, the condensation of times, the sublime evokes change." - Chris Tigra
The Pierre Verger National Photography Prize is one of the biggest competitions for photographic works in Brazil and awards one of the biggest financial prizes for artists in this language in the country. The event aims to encourage, publicize and value Brazilian photographic production, awarding prizes to sets of works with free themes and techniques. One of the most important competitions for photographic works in Brazil, the Pierre Verger National Photography Prize was created in 2002 and over the years, through dialogue with the artistic photography sector, its objectives and criteria have been improved.
The collective exhibition of the Pierre Verger National Photography Prize – 9th edition, promoted by the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia, a unit linked to the State Department of Culture. The photographs of the three winners and 12 selected for the exhibition can be viewed free of charge from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 6pm, at the Bahia Art Museum, in Salvador until March 10, 2024.
