ReWritten: Photographers Reshaping the Narrative
Group exhibition for the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Upcoming: 27 August - 2 November 2024
Featuring work by artists Amber N. Ford, Emily Hanako Momohara, Gina Osterloh, 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.
Amber N. Ford, Mistaken Identity (detial)
Gina Osterloh, Pressing Against Looking, Fixed
Jonathan Vega, A Historical Process: Unchanged Representation
Carmen Winant, The Last Safe Abortion (detail)
Raymond Thompson Jr., It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel (detail)
Emily Hanako Momohara, De/Tension/Past: Landscapes of American Incarceration, shown: Barbed Wire and Stairs
Jacqueline Woods, Water Seeks Its Own Level
Emily Zeller, L to R:
Wig, Mask, Mud Turtle, Cabbage Butterfly, Groom, Coil, Umbrella, Castle, Rapeseed
Necklace, Lacewing, Timber Wolf, Hoopskirt, Breastplate, Harp, Orange, Cardoon, Triumphal Arch
Sarong, Velvet, Fiddler Crab, Gorilla, Jellyfish, Artichoke, Chambered Nautilus, Bannister, Binder
Leonard Suryajaya, For Daughters