Open Doors Gallery are excited to be attending our UNSEEN 2024 in Amsterdam later this year. This art fair famously focuses on contemporary photography and brings together a fantastic international selection of galleries & artists each year.
The focus of our booth this year will be new work from Javier Hirschfeld Moreno‘s fascinating Profile series. This will be the first time his work has been exhibited at the fair. We will be releasing new work here and via the Artsy platform in the coming weeks. We look forward to welcoming you to our booth at UNSEEN 2024.
For a full catalogue of available work or tickets to the fair, contact
tom@opendoors.gallery
UNSEEN 2024
19—22 September
Westergas, Amsterdam
Javier Hirschfeld Moreno [b.1979, Málaga] is a Spanish artist and curator currently living in London. Moreno is interested in the role and responsibility of photography in the representation of the self and also collective identities.
Javier Hirschfeld Moreno’s ongoing Profile series explores the artist’s interest in art history and portraiture as well as his fascination with self-representation. By using Cartes de Visite, which were hugely popular in the 1860’s, and a collection of screenshots amassed from contemporary dating platforms like Tinder and Grindr, Javier examines themes of identity and visibility, documentation and archive, as well as emotional and surveillance capitalism
“I played with printed dating-app profiles and intervened on the cartes of young males. As a result, the landscape replaces the portrait and the digital invades the old photograph, illustrating at once the offline-to-online transition and one of its consequences, a certain loss of queer visibility.”
Javier Hirschfeld Moreno, 2023
So by cutting into his collection of original nineteenth century cards (Carte de Visite) and removing the figures from them, Javier creates a window. Then by using a collection of screenshots he has captured from dating apps like Tinder & Grindr the artist spends time considering the perfect ‘match’ between then and now by carefully arranging the print behind the window. Generally choosing the images that aren’t overtly sexy, so revealing the nude body for example, but instead selecting the masks that some of us choose to wear on these apps and choose to present to the world. In other words images from ‘discreet’ users of these apps…. READ MORE
Eric Thijssen
Dear sir,
Please keep me updated on Javier hirschfeld Moreno
Could you send me his portfolio please.
Best regards
Tom Page
Hi Erik,
Glad you enjoyed our presentation this year.
I have sent you an email with the pdf catalogue which includes all the current available work.
Talk soon!
Tom