© Robin Cracknell, Acid summer, 2010
Expositions du 10/3/2016 au 30/4/2016 Terminé
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery 560 Broadway, Ste 603 NY10012 New York États-Unis
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery 560 Broadway, Ste 603 NY10012 New York États-Unis
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is pleased to present “Childhood,” photographer Robin Cracknell’s premiere exhibition with the gallery. “Childhood,” named after the artist’s longterm series documenting the real and staged moments of his son’s early life, will be on view March 10 through April 30, with an opening reception with the artist on Thursday, March 10, 6–8pm.
© Robin Cracknell, Eleven tape, 2012
London-based photographer Robin Cracknell explores themes of love, loss and memory using a unique non-digital process combining traditional film photography and cinematography, and shooting with old, sometimes damaged cameras and salvaged 35mm cine film. In his series Childhood, single father Cracknell offers a stylized, personal vision of childhood through the world of his only son Jake. The resulting photographs, whose precise, detail-oriented compositions are balanced by deteriorative alterations to the negative, are neither idyllic nor unhappy. Instead, a strange poetry emerges, hinting the son is likewise observing the growth of his father through the event of the photograph. “Rather than documenting his life in the conventional way photographs do,” Cracknell writes, “I was actually restaging episodes and conjuring feelings from my own childhood. Parenthood does, in mysterious and sometimes unpleasant ways, take us back to our own childhoods....We are sutured into every snapshot we take and every picture, especially of our children, is, in some way, a self-portrait.”
© Robin Cracknell, Alovebigas, 2010