ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 70

ICUL CTION C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t meets R e v i e w Special Issue Stanley Shoemaker An interview by Josh Ryder, curator and Katherine Wilson, curator [email protected] Mexican visual artist Stanley Shoemaker's work explores the aesthetics of landscape going beyond evokative reminders to draw the viewers into a multilayered experience. In is recent works that we'll be discussing in the following pages, he urges the viewers to extract a narrative from the image he captured, to challenge their perceptual paameters. His approach encapsulates both traditional heritage and unconventional sensitiveness and allows him to produce pieces marked out with a strong reference to contemporariness. One of the most impressive aspects of Showmaker's work is the way it allows the viewers to discover that photography is not about reality, its about making your own reality by manipulating every image: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to his stimulating and multifaceted artistic production. Hello Stanley and welcome to ARTiculAction: we would start this interview with a couple of questions 18