Small Death - Martha Naranjo Sandoval curating the sixth annual Apartamento cookbook

the sixth annual Apartamento cookbook is a broad family

trying to imbue what exists with vivid and urgent impressions

and even an acceptable body seems out of reach

While many of the buildings in this archive often go unrecognized

Small Death - Martha Naranjo Sandoval curating the sixth annual Apartamento cookbookSmall Death collects photographs made by the artist Martha Naranjo Sandoval over her first years living in New York after emigrating from Mexico City. Shaped around Naranjo Sandovals original contact sheets and film reels, it comprises an artists book unfolding in tactile and iterative form. Sandovals work moves between streetscapes, nude self portraits, compositions of found forms, and tender photographs of her family, all suffused with a sensitivity