Title of Work: In-Between Places
Statement:
"In-Between Places" is a series that comprises a collection of visual essays that express the nuances and the contemplative nature of my inner emotional landscape shaped by the yearning for a subjective place I call home. A space with each passing day is less physical and more abstract existing only in the corners of my mind.
This interior emotional space strips away identity to redefine the self. It is creating a universe that violently arises from an abyss to an abstract form that evolves into a self that reexamines its origin and then leaves it behind.
Photography proposes to record the real world but never succeeds in capturing reality; however, photographs exhibit material things that often effectively reference or elicit a feeling or state of being. I use the camera as a mechanism to explore visual elements that function as signifiers of an alternative self and often do this in a non-objective form. This abstraction is a visual mechanism that serves as a reconciliation of my emotions.
I believe that the elements inside the photograph's frame are not definitive; they expand and contract and subjectively give birth to new forms and meaning while interacting with them. The challenging circumstances of working in isolation for more than years became a leitmotif to develop certain proximity to details within the elements and artifacts I use as signifiers in my work. The images are iterations of the same ideas, and the surfaces become containers of the traces of my everyday experience. They are my response to the unsettledness experienced in today's world.
The elements of water and nature have progressively made their way into my work like a pareidolia illusion born of the need to articulate "the seen" to enhance or rationalize comprehension. Light typically serves as a source of illumination in photography, but I think of light as actual content, and it becomes a physical form in my work. These components contribute to photographs being seen not for what they are but for what they become while transforming the natural world's experience.
Photographs make no sound and form no words, but they speak by provoking a dialogue within oneself. This work investigates subject visual dynamics that attempt to harmonize the tangible with the unfamiliar to understand better the complicated relationship between object and its viewer. It makes visible my thinking but never answers questions, instead perplexes them even more.
奥迪斯·雷诺索·桑切斯《中间地带》
“中间地带”包含了一系列视觉散文，表达了我内心情感景观的细微差别和沉思性质，这些情感景观是由对一个我称之为“家”的主观地方的渴望塑造的。一个日复一日的空间越来越抽象，越来越不真实，只存在于我的内心深处。
这种内部情感空间剥离了身份，重新定义了自我。它正在创造一个宇宙，从深渊暴力地上升为抽象形式，演变为一个自我，重新审视其起源，然后将其抛在身后。
摄影试图记录现实世界，但从未成功捕捉到现实。然而，照片展示的物质事物往往有效地反映或引发一种感觉或存在状态。我使用相机作为一种机制来探索视觉元素，这些视觉元素作为另类自我的能指，并且经常以非客观的形式进行。这种抽象是一种视觉机制，用于协调我的情绪。
我相信照片框架内的元素不是确定的，它们扩展和收缩，并在互动时主观地产生新的形式和意义。多年来与世隔绝工作的挑战性环境成为我在作品中作为能指使用的元素在一定程度上接近细节真实的主调。图像是相同想法的迭代，也成为我日常经验的容器。它们是我对当今世界所经历的动荡不安的回应。
水和自然的元素已经逐渐进入我的作品，就像一种幻觉，产生于表达“所见”以增强或合理化理解的需要。光通常是摄影中的照明源，但我认为光是真实的内容，它在我的作品中成为了一种物理形式。这些组成部分提示我们：照片被看到，不是因为它们是什么，而是因为它们在转化自然界的体验时变成了什么。
照片不能发声，一般也没有文字辅助，但它可以通过激发人内心的对话来说话。这部作品研究了主题视觉动力学，试图协调有形和不熟悉的事物，以更好地理解物体与观众之间的复杂关系。它让我的思维清晰可见，但却从不回答问题，反而让他们更加困惑。
Biography:
Odeth Reinoso Sanchez is a Cuban-born photographer currently living in Chicago, Illinois. She initially trained for twenty years as a classical guitar player before taking up photography in 2015. This musical background informs her lyrical black and white photographs, often expressing a melancholic longing for her homeland. She states that her use of traditional silver gelatin materials enable a contemplative, creative space where she can luxuriate in the history and memories that photographs capture. Reinoso Sanchez has exhibited her work in the United States and abroad.
奥迪斯·雷诺索·桑切斯是一名古巴出生的摄影师，目前居住在芝加哥。在2015年开始摄影之前，她曾作为一名古典吉他手接受了20年的训练。她多年的音乐学习背景，也从侧面呼应了她抒情性的黑白照片，如何以忧郁的情调传达出对祖国的乡愁。对传统银盐明胶材料的使用，为她提供了一个沉思、创造性的空间，得以在照片捕捉的历史和记忆中尽情翱翔。奥迪斯曾在美国和海外展出过她的作品。
Website: www.odtreinoso.com
