December 10–13, 2026
The Reef - Downwotn LA
1933 South Broadway | 4th floor | Booth 449 B
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Luis González Palma
Tatiana Parcero
Kristen Joy Emack
Rashod Taylor
This presentation of four living artists harmonizes themes across generations and borders. Together this work explores personal, invisible, or unseen stories expressed through living bodies and natural cycles. Distinct voices hold together first by tone and gesture, then by wonderment and possibility. We invite connectivity. We welcome transformation.
Remarks on featured works follow:
NUBES QUE PASAN . . . by Luis González Palma is both ethereal and direct. Originally created with raindrops and cyanotype, it is scanned and realized as a grid of pigment prints. The artist considers it related to famed early work, La Lotería (The Lottery) and to several more recent (photo and video) works that capture layers of time/presence. The artist seeks to record existential truth: the closer we come to grasping reality- the more quickly it slips through our fingers. The present is gone in the same moment it exists; this truth is both terrifying and liberating.
Tatiana Parcero, Fin y Principio #7, 2008
(End and Beginning #7)
Tatiana Parcero’s Fin y Principio #7 (End and Beginning) sows seeds of eco-feminism, drawing parallels between the personal body and the natural landscape. This portrait of the artist standing in the Pampas, a vast grassland region of Argentina, includes botanical drawings depicting a bean germination cycle. This reference nods to Parcero’s Mexican identity and evokes themes of change, transformation, and the cycles of life.
Parcero’s work raises broad questions about the relationship between human activity and the natural world. Today, “colonizing” genetically modified soybean monoculture and industrialized farming threaten this natural landscape and its biodiversity. The (invasive) transgenic crops still require herbicides and pesticides. Chemical residues leach into groundwater, affecting flora, fauna, and humans. Natural pollination spreads modified genes across borders. These changes affect ecosystems and the communities whose lives are closely connected to the land.
Kristen Joy Emack, Brids, 2019
Kristen Joy Emack and Rashod Taylor each contribute to an essential theme in the history of photography- documenting their children growing up. Emack has photographed her daughter and nieces. Taylor records his son and immediate family. Both artists worked for over a decade on the subject and employ collaboration. Together, they imagine and evolve the image made with their respective families. The result is complex. The artists’ own hope and anxiety as parents of black children infuse the work.
Emack offers a sacred, sustained meditation on girlhood and kinship; her works are full of magic. Playful not performative, Emack’s works embody observant communication, shared growth, and presence. Taylor uses a large format camera to slow intention. He anchors the work to photographic history as a means of inheritance and resistance.
Rashod Taylor, Untitled #4, 2020
ABOUT: SHOW LA is a photography fair, a community, and a creative platform featuring a curated selection of galleries, publishers, institutions and partners from around the world. SHOW LA is a welcoming environment where discovery feels personal and is encouraged by a diverse program including a special exhibition, Low-Fi installations, talks, book signings, a photography competition and an auction.
This is the 2nd edition of SHOW LA (the first was spring 2025). SHOW LA will be hosted at The Reef in DTLA (1933 South Broadway, 4th floor), include 33 exhibitors, and happen across 16,000 sq ft. of space. It is produced by Nazraeli Press (LA), Setanta Books (London), and Micamera (Milan).
