Joseph Desler Costa

Joseph Desler Costa is a photographer living in Brooklyn, NY and Florence, Italy. He holds degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder (BA) as well as ICP Bard College (MFA), and attended the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba. Costa has exhibited his pictures and films at venues including Baxter St. Camera Club of New York, Arsenale di Venezia, Newspace Center for Photography and Mana Contemporary. He has recently had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography and BDP Project Space (Jersey City). Costa’s work will also be featured in the upcoming 2015 Lianzhou Foto Festival this autumn in China.

Costa has published several artists books, including Dedications_Calibrations (Silent Face Projects, 2014) and Fruit and Buns (Self-Published, 2014). His work has featured on a number of blogs as well as in digital and print publications including The New York Times, Self Publish Be Happy, VICE, Der Grief, and Musée Magazine.

Costa’s practice is very much a processed-based labor. Works absorb, mimic and inevitably humanize the visual language made possible by machine and imaging software. Compositions attempt to recreate the texture of a reality that has widened and opened via our ever-present screens and devices – a reality where the digitally constructed and altered image imposes itself on our notions and understandings of space, place, intimacy and self. Temporal experience now unfolds in a state of constant flux, shifting between a physical reality, and the seduction and distraction of the more desirable illusions and versions constantly presented, fabricated and delivered through our screens.

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