Salon #37 – Mary Frey and Tine Guns

11 December 2018: 10×10 hosted a salon with Mary Frey and Tine Guns at the Flowers Gallery.

Mary Frey, a photographer who lives and works in Massachusetts, earned her MFA from Yale, and has taught at the Hartford Art School. She has received numerous awards, notably a Guggenheim Fellowship (1984) and two fellowships from the NEA (1980, 1992). Frey’s work has been exhibited extensively and part of many collections, including MoMA; MFA, Houston, and the Chicago Art  Institute – and addresses the nature of the documentary image in contemporary culture. Her acclaimed book, Reading Raymond Carver (2017), was recently followed by Real Life Dramas (2018), both on Peperoni Books.

Tine Guns is an artist who uses mediums such as film, photobooks and installations to explore perception, memory, and the fragmented notion of time in the human experience. In 2015 she started a PhD on the relationship between Editing in Cinema and Photobooks at Luca School of Arts Gent & KU Leuven. Her videowork was screened at festivals like Jean Rouch Festival Paris, Next Festival, Ostrale Dresden, Night of the Experimental Film. She exhibited at Cinematek/BOZAR Brussels, Netwerk Aalst, Brakke Grond Amsterdam, Casino Luxemburg among others. In 2015 she was selected for .tiff, Young Belgian Talent, introduced by Fotomuseum (FoMu) Antwerp. She has self-published various photobooks. In 2015, The Diver was shortlisted as a finalist in the 2015 First Book Awards of MACK. In 2017 she received the First Price of Visual Arts, East of Flanders, Belgium. 

A big thank you to Flowers Gallery for hosting us.

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