601Artspace is pleased to present Cultural Memory Matters, an exhibition that brings together over 50 photographs by two distinguished storytellers, Joseph Rodriguez and Martín Weber.

Photographic journeymen are often “field workers”. They seek access, establish relationships, extract portraits, and make frequent return visits. Personal motives nurture, filter and fuel their work. On rare occasions they are exalted, but often theirs is an exhausting and difficult daily practice. In the images of Rodriguez and Weber we see the cracks, ruptures, and fissures in the representational fabric, exposing how cultural subjects are framed and naturalized. Presenting their photographs within a larger context – here in the form of a physical and digital archive – Cultural Memory Matters establishes a renewed relationship between documentary practices, journalism and contemporary art.