$120 ($100 G44 members)
Course Price: $360 NM / $310 M
10 participants

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“How to Treat an Image” Course (3 workshops)
$360 ($310 for G44 members)

This workshop explores how ritual actions can transform photographic images, creating works that carry both visual and performative meaning. Participants will learn various techniques for physically altering photographs including burning, tearing, shattering, cutting, soaking, and scratching. We will discuss the conceptual frameworks for these interventions, examining how physical manipulation can embed personal narrative, memory, and emotional resonance into photographic objects. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will create a series of transformed images that expand beyond traditional photographic boundaries. The workshop combines technical instruction with discussions about ritual in contemporary art practice, focusing on how destruction can become a generative act.

This workshop is part of the three-part workshop series How to Treat an Image. To register for all three workshops and save, please contact Gallery 44.

Photography captures a moment, but what happens when we intervene in that moment? How to Treat an Image is a workshop series exploring physical and conceptual interventions into the photographic image. Through acts of destruction, manipulation, and reconstruction, participants will push photography beyond its traditional boundaries, questioning its role as a fixed record.

Blurring the lines between photography, sculpture, and performance, this series challenges participants to rethink photographic materiality. Whether working with their own images or found materials, they will engage in processes that transform photography into a tactile, multidimensional form of storytelling.

• Ryan Van Der Hout