Anthony Goicolea’s Related III exhibition at Sandroni Rey continues a series of tracing the history and timelines of a family separated by immigration. Goicolea is a first generation immigrant from Cuba and this exploration of generations and events is captured through photographs, drawings and an installation. The exhibition comprised of black and white imagery addresses family ties through a detached, impersonal investigation. Photographs showing the negative, which have been drawn on depict family members in a simulated, set up atmosphere. They are clinical and dreamlike.

Two large photo realistic drawings depict a family at a dinner table where every member is seemingly the same age, and emotionless. Its diptych counterpart is a negative of this event of altered time. Everything seems celebratory yet unfamiliar; the artist has created an imagined event where his whole family is together, continuing a traditional timeline and manipulating time and place.

Time is an overwhelming motif represented by both natural and abstract time: pieces entitled Tides and Moon Cycle, depict the reoccurring calendar of changes in the ocean and moon, but are also juxtaposed to architecture and buildings that are never-changing. This solemn and scientific portrayal of passing strengthens thoughts of ancestors in a way where these people lived together at some point but have ... It’s an exploration of the past; it addresses reality, but recreates and excavates the pieces that have been gathered. Goicolea’s timeline brings up memory, moments and the past, but it is all in a mythological place compiled from images and stories, trying to put the pieces together to create something tangible.