ARTIST
ANTHONY GOICOLEA
Cuban-American artist Goicolea is best known for his photographs of preadolescent boys in school uniforms, their faces eerily switched out for his own, but his more recent work, shown in London this fall, charts new territory. Inspired by old studio portraits of his long-dead relatives, he has reproduced them in pencil as if they were negatives, and then photographed them as missing-persons posters—appended to streetlights, trees, and buildings. The echo of 9/11 is unmistakable, but the real subject is cultural dislocation, or in Goicolea's words, "the strange sense of nostalgia for something I have never been a part of or experienced directly."