Wish You Were Here: Joy Episalla

Video (5434): Joy Episalla in conversation with Phil Taylor, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography, at their Wish You Were Here lecture on April 30, 2025. Video by George Eastman Museum.

Joy Episalla’s work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. From a queer/feminist perspective, Episalla engages with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity, and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality, and sound. In her film As long as there’s you, as long as there’s me, she sequences and parlays disparate filmed moments into a travelogue of non-performance performance. In their photo-derived sculptural work, such as the foldtograms, the light sensitive (silver gelatin or chromogenic) objects result from performative and out-of-sequence actions and processes, which are then installed in site-responsive situations. – George Eastman Museum

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