Joséphine Sacabo
Photographic Artist & Author
La Amada by Joséphine Sacabo
I believe in Art as the means of transcendence and connection. My images are simply what I’ve made from what I have been given. I hope they have done justice to their sources and that they will, for a moment, stay “the shadows of contentment too short lived." *
—Joséphine Sacabo
*Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
ABOUT THE WORK: Óyeme con los Ojos (Hear Me With Your Eyes)
Joséphine Sacabo’s new collection of dreamily beautiful new photographs are inspired by a subject right on point for the theme of Words & Music, 2011, which is Literature & Life in the Global Village. Her new work focuses on human rights, specifically the rights of women and she returns to the 17th century to revisit the life of a crusader in the cause. She currently is exhibiting the new work entitled, Óyeme con los Ojos (Hear Me With Your Eyes),at the Gallery of Fine Photography and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and Verve Gallery in Santa Fe. Thecollection is inspired by the life and work of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century Mexican nun who was one of the greatest poets and intellectuals of the American continent. Sor Juana lived in Mexico City in the late 1600’s and was very active in defending women’s rights in Mexico through her writing and poetry which centered on freedom. “She created the most renowned salon of her time from behind the bars of her cloistered cell. And in that cell she studied science and philosophy, wrote poems, plays, and music, while championing the rights of women to intellectual and spiritual freedom. In the end, after resisting valiantly for more than 20 years, she was silenced by the Inquisition. “It is my hope that these images will help break that silence so that we may once again “hear her with our eyes”, Ms. Sacabo has said. “This work is dedicated to women everywhere who, whatever their confines, prevail. They are our hope.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Joséphine Sacabo lives and works mostly in New Orleans, where she has been strongly influenced by the unique ambience of the city, and in San Miguel Allende, Mexico. She is a native of Laredo, TX, and was educated at Bard College in New York. Before moving to New Orleans, she lived and worked extensively in France and England. Her earlier work was in the photo-journalisitic tradition, influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She now works in a very subjective, introspective style. She uses poetry as the genesis of her work and lists poets as her most important influences, among them Rilke, Baudelaire, Pedro Salinas, Vincente Huiobro, and Juan Rulfo, Mallarmé, and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Sacabo, has published four books of her work including Une Femme Habitée in Paris in 1991 by Editions Marval; award winning Pedro Paramo in 2002 by the University of Texas Press; Cante Jondo in 2002 and Duino Elegie in 2005 both by 21st Publishing. Sacabo has had solo shows in Paris, London, Madrid, Toulouse, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other major U.S. cities. Her work has also been widely published in magazines in the United States and Europe and is in numerous Museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Museum of Modern Art - N.Y.; The Smithsonian - Washington D.C.; The Library of Congress; among many others. Joséphine Sacabo has taught highly acclaimed workshops at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles - France and at the Santa Fe Workshops.
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