Magda Biernat | Exhibitions and Book Signing

Exhibition at Centrala in Poznan

Magda Biernat’s book,  The Edge of Knowing, will be apart of an exhibition in her hometown of Poznan in Poland. Curated by Anka Gregorczyk, the exhibition will take place at Centrala, an art space located on the Cyryl Ratajski Square.

CENTRALA
Pl.Ratajskiego 6a
Poznan, Poland

November 20 - December 7

Exhibition opening: November 19th at 7 pm
Artist talk: November 21st at 6:30 pm

Book Signing at Paris Photo

Magda Biernat’s The Edge of Knowing will debut this week at Paris Photo. Please join Magda and co-author, Ian Webster, for a book signing inside the Grand Palais on Friday, November 8th at 2 pm at the Kehrer Verlag booth SE7.

For those who can't make it to Paris Photo, there will be a book launch later this year in NYC. A special edition ("director's cut") version of the book, which features hand-cut pages, as well as a selection of limited edition prints can be pre-ordered directly from her website: https://www.magdabiernat.com/books.

BOOK SIGNING:
Friday, November 8, 2pm
Paris Photo Fair @ Grand Palais
Kehrer Verlag Booth SE7

Carnaval and rodeo. Manioc and maize. Salt pans, gold pans, Inca Kola, super-sized. Pumas and polar bears. Geoglyphs and Northern Lights. Favelas, dugouts, mangroves and the Rio Grande.

The fabric of the Americas, spanning political borders, is woven together with the indelible threads of shared histories and hard-fought freedoms. Despite the vibrancy of this tapestry, the nations of these two massive continents remain wary of one another. Their borders end up representing not only political lines in the sand, but the outer limits of curiosity and imagination.

The Edge of Knowing is the culmination of a year-long journey across South, Central, and North America from Antarctica to the Arctic. With photographs and essays, Magda Biernat and Ian Webster take us beyond the political and cultural boundaries that traditionally define national identity. Exploring places both foreign and familiar, they examine common misconceptions that persist about what the Americas are made of and what the word “American” means.

Lagos Photo Festival

Biernat’s work was included in the recent LagosPhoto Festival. The installation of The Edge of Knowing can be seen at the African Artists' Foundation until November 15th.

In the digital world, globalization appears egalitarian and desirable, however once one shifts to the physical, the inequity inherent in ones place of birth becomes evident with privileged or non-privileged passports conferring or limiting certain capabilities. Traveling the world freely, without being a subject of scrutiny or suspicion is still – and maybe more than ever – impossible for a large percentage of the world population, because the value of a passport is measured by calculating its "visa-free score".

October 27 - November 15, 2019

African Artists' Foundation
Lagos, Nigeria