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| Eufalia Cristina Paz de Almeida, from The Destiny of a Heart |
Lives and dreams
There was some surprising, wonderful,
entirely coincidental synchronicity between this morning's visitors, weaving a
through-line from biography through imagination and back, a kind of mobius
strip of depiction. Sort of left me breathless.
- Allison Leach - trenchantly hilarious and floridly troubling satirical portraits of "misfit explorers" and white-collar criminals in their new jobs as laborers (all "street cast"--one of my favorite phrases from the reviews--by the photographer; casting now more difficult and expensive for her, having moved out of NYC) link
- Alexandra Huddleston - born Sierra Leone, lives in U.S.A. - contributor to photo-eye books, though she didn't mention that when we met - marvelous book design collaboration with her brother, a poet link (to her website, though it doesn't include the collaborative project yet)t
- Eufalia Cristina Paz de Almeida - the "90-degree turns" our lives can take (don't I know!) - investigation in the form of a telenovela of a Brazilian childhood lived in separated households that shared a house - the artist posing as her father, in her father's clothes, imagining scenes that might, or could never, have happened in real life - Eufalia's story was astounding, and her images find an almost peaceful way to recompose the narrative link
- Naoyuki Ogino - gorgeous, evocative views of abandoned Japanese film studios - the "womb of the myth" of cinema, as he put it link (to his website, though he hasn't put this work up yet)
- Susan Berger - Martin Luther King, Jr. - after whom so many streets have been named - what forms do King's dreams, or the places that carry his name, have today? North, south, east, west, Berger records (and prints in graceful gelatin silver) boulevards, avenues, streets, and other roads that bear his name - saw Susan's work at the Griffin a couple of months ago, and was even happier to see it unglazed on the table in Houston link
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