The work of Pia-Paulina Guilmoth speaks of time and transition. She creates magical utopias through the play of the lens that goes beyond legal definitions. In conversation with curator of ExtraLegal, Tudor Etchells, we’ll get close to the importance of practice as a way of living and photography as a vital tool of imagination in the world.
Pia is a working class transgender woman who lives with her girlfriend and two cats in a small tree-house-like space inside of a very old shoe factory on the bank of the Sandy River. In her free time she likes to lay in the dirt, shoot guns, hold her friends, and trespass into abandoned houses and barns.
Her exhibition Flowers Drink the River was exhibited at Serchia Gallery, Bristol, who graciously lent us the work for the exhibition. The accompanying book is a finalist for the 2025 Aperture Photo Book of the Year. She was a 2022 Macdowell Fellow in Visual Arts, and is a 2024 winner of the Google/Aperture Creator Labs.
