Gallery 44 Database
of Contemporary Canadian Photography

Exhibitions: Paracosms

Exhibition Name: Paracosms
From: Jun 5, 2008
To: Jul 5, 2008
Gallery Space: Vitrines
Artists: Clare Samuel
Description: “Each generation is born into the shadow of the previous one, but far from helpless victims of circumstance, young people wield the possibility for change; children’s minds are boundless and constantly inventing. Researchers in child psychology have identified ‘paracosm’ as a particularly intense example of this. Not simply escapism, this ability points to an imaginative power to see the world anew, to renegotiate our relationship to the earth. This series questions how we choose to represent children in photography. While posed in a traditionally subordinate pose, I hope that imagination and a different perspective has imbued them with strength. From their apparently weak position they nonetheless stand before us, questioning and defying our cynical gravity. These images were created during a residency in the Republic of Ireland in 2006.”
Media & Techniques:

body/sex/gender:

youth

subjects:

family
psychology

themes:

representation
perception
dreams

This database record last modified: Thu, Jun 5, 2008