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Anita Giraldo

New York, NY
10027

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©2024 Anita Giraldo
Anita Giraldo

New York, NY
10027

Installation


I create multi media installations that unite the photographic image, sound media and sensor electronics. My installations have shown throughout the US and Europe.

Finding the Sky


This work is under development; details of its progress are available at https://steeliceandstone.blogspot.com/  

It’s the story of a 100-year old man who grew up in a cow town on the Colombian border with Panama.

Sound and image footage have been captured throughout South America, gleaned from locations written to his wife.

The images are from areas frequented 100 years ago, untouched, in a state of suspended animation.




Steel, Ice & Stone


Details of this work’s development are available at https://steeliceandstone.blogspot.com/

Steel Ice & Stone is a multi-media interactive installation. Nine suspended LED panels and sensor-triggered sound create an environment for memory recall.

Laser-exposed  c-prints made from 4x5 transparency. Editioned: 48 x 60 inches; Exhibition: A0: 38 x 49 inches.

Installing the panels in Trenton. Three of nine panels at Gowanus. Note the speaker on top and the sensor on the side of the light panels.


He speaks with a smile, 1994. Speech-animated black-and-white print from negative. 48x24 in., 122x61 cm. This piece exhibited at the Amsterdams Zentrum Voor Fotographie, 1996, Der Werft in Cologne, Germany in 1998 and at the Civil War galleries in Red Hook, NY in 2011. Nothing can be done, 1995. Speech-animated black-and-white print from negative. 48x58 in., 122x76 cm. This piece exhibited at the Amsterdams Zentrum Voor Fotographie, 1996, Der Werft in Cologne, Germany in 1998 and at the Civil War galleries in Red Hook, NY in 2011. My joy comes from within, 1995. Speech-animated black-and-white print from negative. 48x58 in., 122x147 cm. This piece exhibited at the Amsterdams Zentrum Voor Fotographie, 1996, Der Werft in Cologne, Germany in 1998and at the Civil War galleries in Red Hook, NY in 2011. People show me something, 1995. Triptych. Speech-animated black-and-white prints from negative. 75x40.5 in., 190x102 cm. This piece exhibited at the Civil War galleries in Red Hook, NY in 2011 and Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn in 2012. Indian Summer, 1994. Triptych. Speech-animated color prints from transparency. 35x100 in., 89x254 cm. Exhibited at at the Civil War galleries in Red Hook, NY in 2011. All pieces from the installation showed at the Civil War Galleries, Red Hook, courtesy of The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (above) and at the Adams Landing Art Center in Cincinnati. Five of the seven images showed in Amsterdam, four pieces showed at Der Werft in Cologne, Germany.

See My Voice


See My Voice is a series of speech-animated photographs. All but one is a group of sequential images of a person in the act of speech, and all have a speaking unit which is programmed to speak when the viewer crosses a sensor. The viewer triggers the speaking unit; this is an interactive installation.

Working with tapes of the spoken voice has given me insight into the effect of the telephone on the way we communicate. On the telephone we form mental images of each other through what we infer from each otherʼs voices.

Itʼs possible to talk to people regularly over a period of timeand only imagine what they look like. We may speak to someone on the telephone whom we do not see for years, but the image we remember of them is frozen in the past.

When this installation was created, each piece was designed to be free-standing. Since the speaking unit is battery operated, the pieces were placed around the viewing space in an order suitable for the flow of viewers, dependent only on the room lighting set-up so that the viewer could break its beam.

When the sensor was tripped, the unit emitted sound from a small speaker behind each piece. The sensor is a small infrared-sensitive bulb which is embedded in the frame of the piece and is not immediately obvious to the viewer. The installation showed with this unit in Cincinnati and Amsterdam in 1996 and in Cologne, Germany in 1998.


Silver Mills, Columbia County,  2006, 15 x 45 in., 38 x 114 cm. Digital C-print from color transparency. Commissioned by and exhibited at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, New York. The Grainary, Shaker Mills, Columbia County,  2006, 15 x 45 in., 38 x 114 cm. Digital C-print from color transparency. Commissioned by and exhibited at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, New York. Falls Mills,  2006, 16 x 16 in., 41 x 41 cm. Digital C-print from transparency. Blast forge, Copake, 2006, 16 x 16 in., 41 x 41 cm. Digital C-print from transparency. The Barn at Red Mills, Columbia County,  2006, 15 x 45 in., 38 x 114 cm. Digital C-print from color transparency. Commissioned by and exhibited at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, New York. The Columbiaville Bridge, aast cement, Columbia County,  2006. 15 x 45 in., 38 x 114 cm. Digital C-print from color transparency. Commissioned by and exhibited at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, New York.

Looking for Work

Looking For Work is a commission I received from the Columbia County Historical County, Kinderhook, New York, following the historical documentary book, Looking For Work, by Peter Stott. It illustrates the industrial landscapes of Columbia County. The exhibition was curated by Bonnie Yochelson.

Curatorial Statement by Bonnie Yochelson:
Looking for Work features twenty large-scale color photographs of mills, factories, bridges, and other industrial buildings of Columbia County by New York City photographer Anita Giraldo.

Unlike the county’s picturesque residences and churches, these buildings tell the story of economic development from the late-18th century to the mid-20th century. Today, they are in varying states of preservation: some have been maintained for business, some have been converted to domestic use, and some have fallen into ruin.

The sites were chosen from Looking for Work: The Industrial Archeology of Columbia County (Syracuse University Press, 376 pp. 163 illus., $49.95), written by industrial historian Peter H. Stott and commissioned by the Columbia County Historical Society. The exhibition celebrates this long-awaited book, which offers essays on the industrial history of the county’s eighteen towns and the city of Hudson; and describes 134 sites, richly illustrated with historical photographs, maps, prints, and drawings.