studio369
post-documentary research &
art practice.
Studio369
Harvey Castro · Oakland, CA

Esa sombra eres tú
KOIK Contemporary · CDMX
Solo exhibition · 18 Feb 2023
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01 — Premise
The work begins with photographs. The photographs become material. The material carries memory. Documentary photographs from Guatemala, Puerto Rico, California, and beyond move through a translation pipeline. A cyanotype on cotton. A sublimation on inherited cloth. An installation that responds to air. Each substrate asks a different question: What happens when an image oxidizes in sunlight? When it floats in a gallery instead of being pinned to a wall? When shadows cast by the work become part of the work itself?

Studio369 refuses the endpoint. The photograph is raw material.
02 — Selected

One exhibition.
Three bodies of work.

A curated entry —
all exhibitions  ·  all work
Exhibition · Cyanotype · Textile
2023Ciudad de MéxicoSolo

Esa sombra eres tú.

A solo exhibition in four rooms at KOIK Contemporary — Lo que dicen esas paredes, Sublime, Para acá también vive gente, and Lluvia de sangre. Cyanotypes and sublimations on cotton, paper, and FEMA tarp. Sensorial curation by Juci Reis.
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Series · Dye Sublimation · Textile
2023 — ongoingMultipleUnique works

Quantum Memory.

Thermal sublimation onto inherited cotton lace and salvaged domestic textiles. Documentary encounters from Guatemala, Cuba, and India embedded into the molecular structure of cloth.
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Los Olvidados — twelve-panel cyanotype installation, Casa Lu
Series · Cyanotype on cotton · Casa Lu
2018 — ongoingGuatemala · Puerto RicoLong-form

Los Olvidados.

The post-documentary translation of the long-running Los Olvidados project — Guatemala and Puerto Rico. Communities navigating environmental catastrophe, displacement, and economic invisibility, carried out of the photographic frame and into cyanotype on cotton. Twelve panels from the Guatemala chapter, made during a residency at Casa Lu, Mexico City.
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Series · Cyanotype · Paper
2022 — ongoingAmericas · IndiaEdition + Unique

Cyanotype Works.

A continuing series of cyanotypes on paper, amate, and bristol — Havana, Varanasi, Tikal, Mexico City. Photosensitive chemistry as a way of holding the encounter in place without claiming to fix it.
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"RAID — Resilience, Adaptation, Impermanence, Detachment. Four conditions governing how memory persists in physical form. The framework does not preserve moments unchanged. It recognizes that survival requires transformation." — from the Studio369 framework
Next steps
Studio369 works with collectors, curators, institutions, and commissioning partners. Available works, exhibition packets, and press materials are available by request.