ReWritten: Photographers Reshaping the Narrative
Group exhibition for Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Upcoming: 27 August - 2 November 2024
Featuring work by artists Jacqueline Arias, Jen Everett, Amber N. Ford, Ellen Garvens, Emily Hanako Momohara, Gina Osterloh, Leonard Suryajaya, Raymond Thompson Jr., Jonathan Vega, Carmen Winant, Jacqueline Woods, Emily Joy Zeller
Rewritten highlights contemporary photographers that take, make, and collect images in order to reshape their narrative, to question power, politics, social cruelty, and the agency and complications of self-formation. Their processes turn the context of the objects and references inside out, expanding meaning and influencing the present. From a sense of urgency to meditative intelligence, they conjure visual relationships and critique with an emotionally disruptive beauty and deeper perspective. These imagemakers employ a variety of techniques and photographic materials, such as tintypes, installation, non-silver emulsions, vernacular archives, and digital output, with pivotal retellings and negotions of place, time, and embodiment.
Jacqueline Arias, Rays of Resilience: A Vision of the Future, video
Jen Everett, Could You Dim the Lights?, video
Image courtesy of Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Photo: Mikey Moser
Amber N. Ford, Mistaken Identity (detail), archival pigment prints
Gina Osterloh, Pressing Against Looking, Fixed, archival pigment print
Jonathan Vega, A Historical Process: Unchanged Representation, tintyes and archival pigment prints
Carmen Winant, I Am an Instrument in the Shape of a Woman Trying to Translate Pulsations into Images for the Relief of the Body and the Reconstruction of the Mind, kinetic mobile
Ellen Garvens, Division, archival pigment print
Raymond Thompson Jr., It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel (detail)
Jacqueline Woods, Handle with Care, photo assemblage
Emily Hanako Momohara, Anna and Kuniji Tamura, Matsutake Hunters, archival pigment prints
Emily Zeller, L to R:
Wig, Mask, Mud Turtle, Cabbage Butterfly, Groom, Coil, Umbrella, Castle, Rapeseed, archival pigment print
Necklace, Lacewing, Timber Wolf, Hoopskirt, Breastplate, Harp, Orange, Cardoon, Triumphal Arch, archival pigment print
Sarong, Velvet, Fiddler Crab, Gorilla, Jellyfish, Artichoke, Chambered Nautilus, Bannister, Binder, archival pigment print
Leonard Suryajaya, Red Envelope, archival pigment print