Unsuspected

October 17 – November 8, 2025 

Curator: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill

Participated Artist: Julie Anand, Sybil Brintrup, Stan Buglass, Amalia Caputo, Liz Cohen, Lenora de Barros, Cameron Gainer, Mehrdad Mirzaie, Elizabeth Pineda, Patricia Sannit, and Liza Stout

Unsuspected is a collective exhibition that proposes to focus on the overlooked, the insignificant, and the forgotten. Photography has a unique capacity to capture something unseen, through either a long or premeditated creative process, experimentation, chance occurrences, as documentation of performative acts, as a transdisciplinary form, a screen shot, etc. When a photographic image exists with intention -conceptual, intuitive, political, humoristic, critical, etc.- within and beyond the medium-itself-, it may reveal a visual and conceptual universe that far from confirming reality as we know it, it may expand it, question it, and reinvent it, in unexpected ways. Paradoxically, the more insignificant, overlooked or recognizable the subject, the experiential disturbance is the more potent.  

This exhibition is inspired by artist Sybil Brintrup (Chile 1954-2020) a Chilean conceptual artist who worked in diverse media -video, performance, photography, poetry, objects, games- who was often overlooked. Unsuspected is about our relationship with objects and the world that surrounds and embraces us; it is about artists paying attention to what seems irrelevant or inconsequential. An intergenerational group of artists -ASU professors, MFA students and alumni, and nonaffiliated guest artists- offer images that reveal seeing with imagination and intent, within and beyond the known and the photographic medium.