Iñaki Bonillas

Kurimanzutto presents a solo exhibition by Iñaki Bonillas in its New York cabinet space. In Marginalia, Bonillas approaches the photographic object from the manifestation of its materiality. Three distinct groups of work explore the artist’s interest in photography, as it emerges from the technical and physical prowess of its own creation and presentation.

Photography, as opposed to the medium of painting or sculpture, has an inherent liquid quality: the same image can vary wildly from one format to another. What we finally behold before us, is in fact the amalgamation in a series of choices. Each time a photograph is printed or shown, its mischievous mutability presents it as a version unlike any other. For Bonillas, books are a medium par excellence, where photography can roam freely, living its best life as a copy of a copy. For the titular series Marginalia, the artist focuses his attention on the layout of images in books, and the corresponding white margins created across these layouts. Following the trace between images, and placing these white paths at the center of his collaged compositions, Bonillas proposes a new approach to what lays in the fringes, yet is an essential part of our photo-consumption.