October :: The Spectral Express :: Ahmed Salvador :: IV_Gallery :: Cortright_electric :: 10.02.2026 6pm-9pm

The Spectral Express

Ahmed Salvador

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Friday October 2nd, 6:00pm

Miniatures link people to points in time that are in stasis. Model train sets bring families together. Perspective is important: one looks down at the motion, looping like a clock. The event repeats. The event is false.

Lightboxes containing film abstract the landscape. Color prints utilizing traditional darkroom processes showcase disappearing views of stations and houses. The 3-walled video animates these photographic stills and at times destroys the miniatures. These are reimaginings of memories, linked by one line…
The Spectral Express.

Ahmed Salvador is a photographer with an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is an adjunct assistant professor at CUNY and a teaching artist at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia.