Papua New Guinea and Photomorphs: Two visual essays by Kathryn Morhman and Mac Cosgrove-Davies
November 22, 2019 – December 29, 2019
Curator: Fabian Goncalves Borrega, exhibition coordinator at the Art Museum of the Americas and curator at the F Street Gallery, which focuses on photography.
Reception/gallery talk: Sunday, November 24, 5-7 pm
Kathryn Mohrman: Papua, New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, occupying half of a volcanic island just north of Australia, is one of the world’s poorest countries. But it is one of the richest when considering its traditional culture. A sing-sing is a traditional celebratory occasion, with music, dancing, and magnificent visual display. Today a sing-sing is a chance for some of the 800 tribes (with more than 800 languages!) to come together to share local customs, to pass traditional culture to the next generation, and to earn a bit of money from foreign tourists. In August 2018 I spent five days in Mt. Hagen at one of the most prestigious sing-sings in the country, with close to 100 different performing groups.
Mac Cosgrove-Davies: Photomorphs
Photomorphs presents multiple interpretations of the same image in a variety of image-making processes. These include pictorialist photo processes such as gum bichromate, cyanotype, oil, and carbon, as well as hand coloring, drawing and block printing
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