'Material Proxy' Opens Tomorrow
My curatorial debut is tomorrow, where I've brought together the work of two photographers and friends, Rosemary Haynes & Joe Librandi-Cowan
Hi all!
It’s been a while, and I apologize for my absence. However, I’m excited to announce that I curated an exhibit with the photographs of two of my friends, Rosemary Haynes & Joe Librandi-Cowan. The exhibit, Material Proxy, opens tomorrow, Friday, May 9th, at Living Skin gallery at 61 Wyckoff Avenue. The opening reception will be 7-10 pm. I hope you can make it.
The show will be on view through May 31st. I’ve included a short snippet of the press release, but I encourage you to read the complete version here, https://livingskin.space/material-proxy. There will be a few programs during the duration of the show, including a walkthrough.
I would not want to photograph the way Haynes and Librandi-Cowan do. The act requires accepting difficult memories that many, like myself, choose to let fade; instead, their feelings of familial uncertainty and worry are out on full display. Last year, Haynes photographed my family in my childhood apartment. She brought narratives for us to enact, but seeing the structure of our apartment, she began to create new scenes. In one photograph, she caught a look that my dad gave my mom that I’ve only ever recalled in my memory from living with them. I never met someone else curious about the private gestures of my family. Haynes’s photographs bring to the surface the memories that I would rather keep between my family and me. And in the same way, I was glad to see someone else see a kind of magic in my family and in this space where I grew up.
