On view: December 8-13, 2023 Reception: December 8, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Encompassing photography, printmaking, and animation, Claire Begalla’s works visually explore the manipulation of the human figure and its dynamic relationship with the surrounding landscape. Born in DeLand Florida, they will receive their Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Digital Screen Media Studies from Davidson College. Claire also studied Darkroom Photography and Ethnographic Photography at Temple University in Rome, Italy. Claire manages the photography of the Van Every/ Smith Galleries art collection and works as an Arts Fellow for Davidson Arts and Creative Engagement. They also worked as a Curatorial...
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On the eve of World AIDS Day, December 1st, we are taking a look back at one of the many works in our collection surrounding the AIDS crisis. Carl Tandatnick (American, b. 1956) AIDS Pyramid, 2015 Serigraph on paper 26 x 37in. Gift of the Artist Upon first glance, AIDS Pyramid looks like a simple repetition of the same two photographs of white and red blood cells. The border along the edges is unvaried and contrasting in black and white, while the middle areas play with scale and detail, offering us a closer glimpse into the cells. The top of...
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In Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene's Untitled #68, a woman appears to sleep inside a couch. Eyes closed, her face looks tired yet tense, like she is caught up in a bad dream. The work plays with visibility; the woman is illuminated by light, but the cushions balance on top of her like they are meant to her from the world as she rests. Behind the couch is complete darkness; this couch appears to be not in a home but in a vacuum. It’s an otherworldly scene, even more so due to the woman’s soft white dress with lace detailing...
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“A Crack In the Hourglass, An Ongoing COVID-19 Memorial” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Written by: Lia Rose Newman
November 20th, 2023
"Soon, it will no longer be possible to delegate one's death to others. It will no longer be possible for that person to die in our place. Not only will we condemned to assume our own demise, unmediated, but farewells will be few and far between. The hour of autophagy is upon us and, with it, the death of community, as there is no community worthy of its name in which saying one's last farewell, that is remembering the living at the moment of death, becomes impossible." —Achille Mbembe, "The Universal Right to Breath," translated by Carolyn Shread (Critical Inquiry...
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Andrea Eis (American, b. 1952)Antigone and Kreon47 x 32.5 inDiptych, archival pigment prints on cotton rag mounted on aluminumGift of Van Hillard, Davidson College Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Emeritus The torso is the true abode of the mind. That is, according to the Ancient Greeks; (φρήν/phrḗn) may be translated as "mind, resolve, will, heart" and refers anatomically to the abdomen. On the left, Kreon’s abdomen resembles the kind of stone-faced masonry meant to fortify cities—and fortification was precisely the concern of this king of Thebes in the Sophoklean tragedy Antigone. The contention between the two characters above, Kreon and...
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