Mercado da Ribeira

Av. 24 de Julho 49, 1200-479 Lisboa

10 . 09 . 2024 → 15 . 11 . 2024

tuesday - saturday → 06:00 am – 07:00 pm

sunday → 09:00 am – 01:00 pm

Artist

Gideon Mendel

Gideon Mendel’s intimate approach to image- making and long-term commitment to socially engaged projects has earned international recognition. Born in Johannesburg in 1959, Mendel began his career as a news and ‘struggle’ photographer documenting the final years of apartheid. This experience marked him deeply, and much of his subsequent work has been engaged with the key issues facing his generation. In 1991 he moved to London, and continued to respond to global concerns, especially HIV/AIDS.

Since 2007, using stills and video, Mendel has worked on Drowning World’, an art and advocacy project that is his personal response to our climate crisis. His work has been widely published in magazines and newspapers including National Geographic, Geo and the Guardian Weekend. His images have been used in climate protests while his photographs; installations and video pieces are increasingly shown in galley and museum contexts, sometimes in unusual outdoor displays.

Mendel has received the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize For Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award. Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2015 and 2019, he has also received the Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, the Amnesty International Media Award, and six World Press Awards.

Mendel has in recent years extended his work on global warming to include the element of fire with his Burning World project. In his ongoing practice he continues, where possible to make work in situations of climate disaster, such as the Pakistan floods of 2022 along with a new engagement with his personal family archive reflecting the trauma of his parents escape from Nazi Germany.