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Scarlett Hooft Graafland_Resolution, Malekula
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Scarlett Hooft Graafland_Flash
Exhibition
Galerie XII Los Angeles Presents Photographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland’s "Vanishing Traces”
2 May 2020 – 27 Jun 2020
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- Bergamot Station Arts center, 2525 Michigan Ave
- Suite B2
- Santa Monica
California - 90404
- United States
Showing for the first time in LA, the exhibit covers 15+ years of work and spans 6 different countries. Scarlett Hooft Graafland's ideas emerge from close study of the local mythology that originates in these otherworldly environments.
About
Scarlett Hooft Graafland's work is rooted in her being a photographer, a sculptor, a choreographer, and an explorer as she seamlessly transforms ordinary landscapes into astonishing anomalies.
Traveling to the most isolated corners on earth, these austere surroundings become live actors in the highly choreographed performances that Graafland stages there. Whether it is the salt desert of Bolivia, the Canadian arctic or Madagascar, Scarlett merges with the surroundings and its local culture.
Using childlike color palettes dominated by blue, her photographs offer familiar sights in some of the most isolated locations in the world. Working together with the local people, her works are highly collaborative given that she works in areas that are so removed from civilization and thus at such mercy to the elements. Based in Amsterdam, her work has been exhibited all over Europe and at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, and the Musée D'Orsay, Paris amongst others.
Galerie XII is located near LA’s famed Museum Row in Miracle Mile and is open Wednesday to Saturday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and by appointment.
