FE, CUERPO Y ARTIFICIO
MUSEO ALEJANDRO OTERO
Complejo Cultural La Rinconada, Caracas
Sala 4

Curated by Costanza De Rogatis

A solo exhibition of
AMALIA CAPUTO

Opening November 12, 2006 at 11:00 AM • Exhibition continues through February 3, 2007

DOUZ & MILLE is pleased to announce the solo exhibition FE, CUERPO Y ARTIFICIO (Faith, Body and Artifice) at the Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, Venezuela curated by Costanza De Rogatis.

Amalia Caputo was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1964. She holds a Bachelor in Art and Art History from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, graduating with honors in 1988. In 1995 she acquired her Masters in Arts in Photography at New York University and the International Center of Photography. She was a student and teacher assistant to Christopher Phillips, Nan Goldin, Eugene Richards, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Peter Witkin and Carole Naggar among others. She has been devoted to her career as an artist while also being dedicated to curating, editing and writing.

Since 1989 Amalia Caputo has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in Venezuela, Spain, Mexico, Ecuador and the US. Amalia Caputo currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.

DOUZ & MILLE has had the pleasure to present Amalia Caputo’s work in Washington, DC and at international art fairs in London, New York and Taipei where she received a collectively positive response.

In a characteristic way Amalia Caputo’s images tell us personal stories like those we find in fairy tales or in the quotidian reportorial news. Ambiguous perceptions can be triggered with Amalia’s images, and a dreamlike sensation frequently permeates from within her compositions.

I have long been interested in how our perception of reality is coded by subjectivity, and how photography as a medium is capable of re-creating infinitely these multiple perceptions.

From my early works up to present, I initiated a personal conversation between photography and the body as a tool to relate my own autobiographical issues with non-narrative staged scenes. I am currently working on the relationship between the obsessive and the notion of physical beauty in our society. My intention is to expose the paroxysm present in the current obsession with the alteration of our physique, i.e. the use of implants in plastic surgery, etc. Other thematic interests are the connection between the notion of the house in relation to the body, as a repository of life experiences and cycles.

Pristinely and with a distinct scientific manner, Amalia Caputo’s images responsibly reveal the weight of often ignored realities but with a strong charge of humanity.

Rody Douzoglou