LONDON PHOTO
MAY 10-14, 2023
Sommerset House
Adolfo Doring
Booth A05
Brooklyn, NY—The Empty Circle is pleased to present a solo booth of Adolfo Doring’s Posted 162 Grams, on view at Photo London from May 10th - May 14th, 2023.
This body of work is based on a conceptual book created by the artist. Doring posted images on Instagram from August 16, 2014 to September 2, 2015. Each image was assigned a meta-data to differentiate 81 portraits from 81 environments. The second meta-data entry assigned was the number of likes each posted image received on the social media platform, which he would combine to make a diptych. When selecting which images would be placed on the right and the left, Doring left it completely up to chance; he flipped a coin. In his own words, “The random nature of the process has given me the unexpected pleasure of experiencing unexpected compositions.”
Doring kept his passion for photography uncompromised. His work in this show proves his deep commitment to art and its relationship to the contemporary social landscape.
Doring’s labor-intensive process also reveals his deep love and commitment to analogue photography. Each image, exquisitely composed and lit, is a unique silver-gelatin print. His photographs reference the daguerreotypes of nineteenth-century photography. As New York writer, Miss Rosen states, “… when regular people who might not be able to afford a portrait could have likenesses preserved—much in the same way digital photography has democratized the image making. By translating digital photographs back to film, Doring illustrates that progress is not necessarily a linear affair, just as randomness is a valuable tool in the creative process.” Rosen further notes “…. that somewhere where between chance and mystery lies imagination.”
The portraits in Posted 162 Grams juxtaposed with environments, create 81 evocative stories. Twenty diptychs are on view here.