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Fam. / 2001 is a series of 26 photographs
and a publication. Fam.
explores the
representation of the concept of family. In individual portraits a family
stages
herself in their own
surroundings.
October 14 - November 12, 2005
Opening:Friday, October 14 from 6-8 pm
LMAKprojects (Chelsea)
526 West 26th Street # 310
New York, NY 10001
www.lmakprojects.com
Press Release- lmakprojects
LMAKprojects is pleased to
present Sara Blokland's first solo-show in New York, entitled Fam. Abstract.
"Fam." is an abbrevation, used in the Netherlands as an heading to address a
family.
Fam Abstract is a series
of portraits of members of a same family, in which each person is
photographed individually in the family's shared indoor environment. The
portraits present staged situations based on the individuals' natural poses,
postures and personal boundaries, in order to reveal their self-image.
With this series the artist attempt to
explore the physical relations between the family members, their bodies, and
their poses. The photographs, which are mainly enlarged Polaroids, are taken
without direct contact between the camera and the subject. The individuals
appear to be lost, disconnected, or even alienated from each other. The
family relations are rebuilt through the unique size differentiation of the
prints and their arrangement on the walls of the gallery, which almost
resembles a page in a family photo album.
Also on view is Blokland's latest
project: Father’s Paradise, which is a selection of more than forty images
of a garden. In the middle there is a man, the owner of the garden. Over the
past ten years he photographed his garden. In Father's Paradise Blokland
researches the role and esthetics of a personal archive.
Sara Blokland's work forces the viewer
into the narrow space between voyeurism and real intimacy, and thus it is
brutally honest and even explicit. She examines the way photography and
video witness events, and investigates to what extent images derive their
meaning from the context in which they have been created, what are the roles
that certain aspects such as 'pose' and 'privacy' play in the interpretation
of the spectator, and what is the meaning of photographic ‘credibility’ of
images.
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