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| Hiroshi Yamauchi, Sign of 3.11 |
Buell Theater in Denver Arts Complex
Eye of the Storm
Curated by Rori Knudtson
"Eye of the Storm" offers a view of work by photographers from Japan and Norway dealing with identity, resiliency and the landscape. This is most relevant in the wake of national catastrophes of unsurmountable precedence in two small sea-faring nations who share similarities in their historic industrial and architectural vernaculars. These tragic events also find a most relevant conversation in Colorado as the location last summer of both forest fires of unprecedented distance and range and the Aurora theater shootings.
Each photographer, has found a method to deliver a poetic framing of context and the connection to a bodily point of reference. Their images bring us into place and in turn, help us to see just how similar, despite our vast geographical distances, we are to one another in endeavoring to understand the 21st Century world we have inherited.
It is in the calm of the eye, and in the framing of the photograph, that we begin to make sense of where we are, and with this, a hope for a place to arrive once the storm subsides.
Heidi Nikolaisen (1973) Bergen
http://www.heidinikolaisen.net
Maya Økland (1980) Bergen
http://www.mokland.no
Vilde Salhus Røed (1981) Bergen
http://www.vildesr.no
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| "Strolling in between" by Yuko Tada from Japan |
Yuko Tada (1974) Osaka
http://www.tada-you.com
Hirohito Nomoto (1971) Osaka
http://hirohitonomoto.com
Hiroshi Yamauchi (1974) Osaka
http://www.wow-photo.jp
EXHIBITION OPENING
Buell Theater
Wednesday, March 27th, 5-7pm p.m.
Includes a performance by Ballet Nouveau
http://bncdance.com/company
ARTIST LECTURES
McNichols Building 3rd fl. 14th and Colfax
Thursday, March 28th, 6 - 9pm
http://artsandvenuesdenver.com/venues/mcnichols-civic-center-building
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Friday and Saturday, March 29th and 30th
In collaboration with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center
Times TBD
Presented by School of Critical Engagement. Curation by Rori Knudtson (United States), Hiroshi Yamauchi (Japan) and Heidi Nikolaisen (Norway). This is also STEP SEVEN of Recuperatio|12.
This exhibition is part of Denver's Month of Photography.
www.mopdenver.com
Made possible by Denver Arts and Venues.
http://artsandvenuesdenver.com
720-865-4302
public.art@denvergov.org
