Explore photobooks from the ICP Library and connect with fellow photobook enthusiasts at ICP's Photobook Club. Each month, browse hand-picked selections from special guests and ICP community members. This month, explore selections from artists Geraldine Barón and Naima Green whose exhibition Instead, I spin fantasies, is on view through January 12. Both Barón and Green will be present at Photobook Club from 11 AM - 12 PM for informal browsing and conversation.
Following the community meet-up, join us in the ICP galleries at 3 PM for a special presentation of Rehearsal for a Family, a reading, performance, and exhibition series that reimagines notions of kinship, family, and belonging.
About the speakers
Geraldine Barón is an Argentine writer, artist, and filmmaker living and working between New York City and Buenos Aires. Her practice spans photography, video, writing, and curation, and explores the construct of family as a field of study, focusing on the relationships between image and text, rehearsal and performance. Her process is open and reciprocal: the act of making work becomes inseparable from the act of making family itself. For the past eighteen years, Geraldine has been working on an ongoing series titled Rehearsal for a Family, comprising photographs and texts that explore family-making and its constitutive elements of intimacy, queerness, language, labor, and storytelling. Her writing traverses the material and porous expanse between Spanish and English, moving through the spaces of translation, placelessness, and belonging. Since 2023, she has hosted a bilingual series of readings, performances, and exhibitions—also titled Rehearsal for a Family. Geraldine holds a BA in Comparative Literature and French & Francophone Studies from UCLA, and an MFA in Film Directing and Screenwriting from Columbia University. She is an alumna of the Artists Program at the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas and the Cinema Lab at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Her photography has been exhibited in both the U.S. and Argentina, and her writing has appeared in publications such as A Magazine Curated By. Her films have screened at festivals internationally, and her film Hotel Y received Best Director Award from INCAA. She is currently working on a film drawing from her casting practice and investigating the relationship between performance, identity, and reproductive labor.
Naima Green is an artist and educator who pictures individuals and communities to document their vibrant relationships to place and pleasure. She engages with various photographic forms, sound, and experimental film. Throughout her collaborative practice, Green accesses and prioritizes the nature of intimacy, safety, and self-recognition. Often working in lush and watery environments, she presents windows into multidimensional experiences of seawater and its pathways: beauty, buoyancy, overwhelm, and submersion. Oral and written histories are critical to her process; by synthesizing archival research with outreach and conversation with current sitters, she frames picture-making as a continuum and her still images as kinetic, living histories.
Naima Green, If I didn’t let my mind run too far ahead, I felt completely happy, 2024 ©Naima Green
