In his practice, Rafael Soldi examines how queerness and masculinity intersect with
immigration, memory, and loss. Soldi’s photographs are at once powerful and intimate; they
reflect deep retrospection by the artist, a process navigated by many, especially when one
experiences displacement and feels neither rooted in one place or another but exists in the
spaces in-between.
Soldi uses various methods to create works including the nineteenth-century technique of
photogravure and the contemporary photobooth. This exhibition includes works from three
interconnected series from the last five years. Each series offers deeply personal
ruminations on identity while simultaneously presenting universal yet complex implications
of fragility, struggle, and resilience.