Map Of Latin American Dreams By Martin Weber

In the gallery at Silver Eye, Weber supplies a large chalkboard for viewers, so that we too can inscribe our dreams. The juxtapositions with the artwork can prove jarring, even sickening: Where one Weber photograph depicts a mother posing with her family in Son Onofre, Colombia, her sign reading, "That they return the remains of my son Jose Luis Olivo Cardena, victim of the paras (paramilitary)," a Silver Eye visitor has written: "That I owned the Steelers."
Such contrasts might make it seem unlikely that gallery-goers can relate to the dire circumstances in which so many impoverished people live. Still, in these poignant photographs, Weber has succeeded in giving "them" a platform to express an (often crushing) humanity in a way that, hopefully, causes thoughtful pause.