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Performances of Self: Becoming the family album in Rafael Goldchain’s I Am My Family
Rosa Saverino, University of Toronto
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In the life of every man there are periods that are both departures and reunions, separations and reconciliations. Each of these phases is an attempt to transcend our solitude, and is followed by a descent into undiscovered countries. (Paz )
In the epigraph of his book Nostalgia for an unknown land, Toronto-based artist Rafael Goldchain quotes the Mexican writer Octavio Paz, who describes man’s existence as a network of intersecting relationships. Paz alludes to the extent to which man’s identity is bound by a wider social and cultural context. In Nostalgia for an unknown land, Goldchain writes about how he returns to his native South America to document the photographic memories of his trip. The snapshots of various important moments of his trip inspire Goldchain to embark on a personal journey of self-discovery through a redisco
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I discovered Rafael Goldchain&#;s wonderful self-portraits in a recent Lenswork Magazine. Rafael is a Chilean-Canadian Jewish artist, who was born in Santiago de Chile, lived in Jerusalem in the early s, and moved to Canada in the late s. He has created an amazing series of photographs bases on memories, family and fiction, which was published in by Princeton Architectural Press.
Rafael received a MFA from York University and a Bachelor of Applied Arts from Ryerson University, both in Toronto. He has garnered numerous awards including the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography from The Canada Council for the Arts. His photographs have been exhibited across Canada, Chile, the United States, Cuba, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Mexico. His work is featured in many private and public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houst
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Photo from the exhibit inom Am My Family
Bachelor of Photography coordinator Rafael Goldchain spoke at the fem Artist Speaker Series gods Friday, while also premiering his new photography exhibition titled &#;I Am My Family&#;.
Princeton Architectural Press had this to say on the opening:
&#;Old family photo albums are fascinating. If you’re lucky enough to own one, you’ve probably spent hours poring over half-faded black-and-white portraits of your förfäder, searching for similarities in their facial features and wondering what their lives might have been. Unfortunately, not every family has such easy access to their own history. Photographer Rafael Goldchain’s Polish-Jewish förfäder emigrated to South amerika in the s, and many others perished in Poland during the Nazi regime. Also lost in the turmoil of war and emigration were most of the portraits of his extended family. When Goldchain became a parent himself, he decided to make up for this lack of evidence and recreat