This afternoon I met with the artistic director at the Franco-Mozambican Center in the baixa, downtown, which is the best location in Maputo for exhibitions. They have art exhibitions, concerts, and dance performances there, so the space is somewhat big and popular. I knew that the major spaces here fill up quickly (they’re already booked for the next six months), so I had wanted to book something as soon as I could. I prepared an iView slide presentation and made the same pitch I made when I first talked to her over the telephone and went into detail about what I planned to do: exhibit 60 pictures, have ambient sound recorded loop through in one room, and show a short multi-media piece to introduce the issue. As promising as it looks, I’m still not fully in the door and must prepare a press package with a short biography, a synopsis describing the project I’ll be exhibiting, and 5 sample photographs.
Considering the reality of a looming exhibition, my first, I suddenly feel a bit overwhelmed although the date is somewhat far off—I requested 10 days at the end of November. This gives me deadlines to look forward to. Incidentally, when we were first getting under way in the course, I expressed interest in doing an exhibition, and Antrim encouraged me to look into the French cultural center where she once exhibited (not here). Good suggestion.
I met with John Easterby and Lizzie in our group tutorial this afternoon. He had some interesting suggestions about the ways I could print my photographs, pointing out that you can print high quality photographs on almost anything today. He also made me think about framing, matting and actually hanging my pictures. John also suggested a former student's book business called Bob's Books for a self-publishing book printer as an alternative to Blurb. He mentioned that they gave LCC students a discount last year that he would look into getting for us again. There will be a lot of work and thinking to do.
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