Abandoned: Time and Place: International Showcase (2021)

September 9 to November 14, 2021

Abandoned: Time and Place: International Showcase (2021) preserves the international half of The Chateau Gallery's 2021 Louisville Photo Biennial project. The official Biennial record identifies Abandoned: Time and Place as a virtual show featuring multiple artists, disciplines, and media, presented from September 9 to November 14, 2021. This International Showcase brings together nineteen photographers whose credit lines span the United States, Canada, Sweden, South Africa, China, Russia, India, and Ukraine. Their recorded processes include large-format 4x5 film, archival inkjet and photographic prints, photographic monoprints with asemic writing, giclee prints, digital photo composites, and gelatin prints made on expired photographic paper found at the photographed location. The page explores deserted and rediscovered objects, structures, ruins, ephemera, memory, place, and the traces people leave behind. TCG Gallery's institutional history records that the planned full-scale physical presentation could not proceed, so the project was preserved online as separate Regional and International Showcases. The official Biennial page verifies the overall virtual project; TCG's archive supplies the two-part structure. Explore the International catalog below, then continue to the companion Regional Showcase or the complete photography exhibition archive.

A Louisville Photo Biennial Project with International Reach

Abandoned: Time and Place: International Showcase (2021) belongs to an official Louisville Photo Biennial project presented by The Chateau Gallery. The Biennial's venue page confirms the September 9 to November 14, 2021 dates and classifies the overall Abandoned: Time and Place project as a virtual show featuring multiple artists, disciplines, and media. It does not name separate Regional and International Showcases. That division comes from TCG Gallery's institutional history and the surviving archive itself, which keeps two distinct rosters and two independently browsable catalogs. The separation is archival, not a claim that the Biennial published two venue listings.

Nineteen Photographers Across Eight Countries

The International Showcase records nineteen photographers whose credit lines identify locations in the United States, Canada, Sweden, South Africa, China, Russia, India, and Ukraine. Olivia Shihambe is credited to Pretoria, South Africa. Daniel Laskarin is credited to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Peter Wendel is credited to Mölndal, Sweden; Li Chen to Shanghai, China; Anastasiya Novikova to Moscow, Russia; Anil Purohit to Mumbai, India; Mariana Blinova to Kyiv, Ukraine; and Sara Victoria Sandberg to Stockholm, Sweden. The United States entries extend across multiple states and cities. These are credited locations, not invented claims about nationality or where an individual photograph was made.

Archival Prints, Large-Format Film, and Digital Processes

The catalog documents photographic processes with unusual specificity. Entries include photographic prints on archival paper, archival inkjet prints on matte and fine art papers, inkjet printing on Bockingford paper, giclee photo prints, and a digital photo composite. Charles Anselmo's credits identify large-format 4x5 film, Moab Entrada fine art paper, and Ultrachrome archival inks. Clare Dygert's entries are photographic monoprints with asemic writing. Several credit lines preserve signed and numbered edition information. The archive also records dimensions and listed prices without implying that historical availability remains current.

Expired Photographic Paper as Part of the Process

Amanda Thomas's catalog entries describe gelatin and silver gelatin prints made on long-expired photographic paper found at the locations where the photographs were taken. The artist-supplied credits state that age and mold created distortions in the paper, making each print unique and impossible to reproduce. That process belongs in the searchable archive because it connects photographic material, site, and impermanence without requiring the gallery to invent a visual reading. The record says what the material is, where it came from, and why each print differs.

One Project Preserved as Two Archive Pages

TCG Gallery's institutional history records that the planned full-scale physical presentation could not proceed. The gallery preserved the Biennial project online as this International Showcase and a separate Regional Showcase. The International page retains its nineteen-artist roster and worldwide credit lines. The Regional page retains a separate nine-artist roster and a more locally organized catalog, while also preserving the Black Grass artist statement about the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Keeping the pages separate prevents either geographic frame from flattening the other.

Explore the complete International Showcase catalog below. Continue to the companion Regional Showcase, browse TCG Gallery's permanent exhibition archive, or review the current photography open calls.

Featured Artists

Paul Murray, Olivia Shihambe, Philip E. Griffith, Daniel Horowitz, Clare Dygert, Daniel Laskarin, Peter Wendel, Charles Anselmo, Peter Aldrich, Li Chen, Anastasiya Novikova, Anil Purohit, Kelly O’Leary, Dave Hanson, Trevor Coopersmith, Jordan Emont, Amanda Thomas, Mariana Blinova, Sara Victoria Sandberg