Aurele Gould is an image maker based in Richmond, VA with a BFA in Photography + Film from Virginia Commonwealth University.
They have been honored with the 2020 VMFA Professional Fellowship Award and the Distinguished Photographer Award from Alex Klein of the ICA Philadelphia. Gould has also received a residency at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond in 2021 and has most recently exhibited at The Anderson Gallery for 'Back Through The Open Window' and at Ours for 'Serenity Now'. Their monozine GLARE (2023) is currently available through Fifth Wheel Press.
Gould’s current practice seeks to explore the nuance within language about glare, grief, love, and desire through photographic motifs of light, reflections, and texture. Glare presents across the physical and the intangible– a heavy gaze, light, liquids; something to turn away from, or to hold. For Gould, the multiplicities within words become the basis for constructing a visual narrative from a queer perspective.
Gould’s current practice seeks to explore the nuance within language about glare, grief, love, and desire through photographic motifs of light, reflections, and texture. Glare presents across the physical and the intangible– a heavy gaze, light, liquids; something to turn away from, or to hold. For Gould, the multiplicities within words become the basis for constructing a visual narrative from a queer perspective.