• Zoe Leonard, One Woman Looking at Another, 1990, gelatin silver print, 36 3/4 x 25 1/4 in (93.3 x 64.1 cm). Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth New York.

    Zoe Leonard, One Woman Looking at Another, 1990, gelatin silver print, 36 3/4 x 25 1/4 in (93.3 x 64.1 cm). Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth New York.

  • Christopher Williams Mustafa Kinte (Gambia) Camera: Makina 67 506347 Plaubel Feinmechanik und Optik GmbH Borsigallee 37 60388 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Shirt: Van Laack Shirt Kent 64 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany Dirk Schaper Studio, Berlin July 20, 2007, 2008, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm) Courtesy the artist; David Zwirner, New York/London. © Christopher Williams

    Christopher Williams Mustafa Kinte (Gambia) Camera: Makina 67 506347 Plaubel Feinmechanik und Optik GmbH Borsigallee 37 60388 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Shirt: Van Laack Shirt Kent 64 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany Dirk Schaper Studio, Berlin July 20, 2007, 2008, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm) Courtesy the artist; David Zwirner, New York/London. © Christopher Williams

  • Kwame Brathwaite, Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), c. 1966, archival pigment print, 15 x 15 in (38.1 x 38.1 cm). Courtesy the artist and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.

    Kwame Brathwaite, Untitled (Photo shoot at a school for one of the many modeling groups who had begun to embrace natural hairstyles in the 1960s), c. 1966, archival pigment print, 15 x 15 in (38.1 x 38.1 cm). Courtesy the artist and Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles.

Exhibition

This Synthetic Moment

18 Jan 2018 – 10 Mar 2018

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Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00

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David Nolan Gallery

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David Nolan Gallery is pleased to present This Synthetic Moment, curated by David Hartt.

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A picture of one woman looking at another, a portrait of a man holding a camera, a portrait of several women in a schoolyard, a picture of a dancer recumbent, and a picture of several ships. 

 A crisis of borders, a fold in time, a rupture in space. An assertion of gradience. 

I was having a hard time describing how I was feeling and then Thomas said "synthetic" and it stuck in my mind. I wanted something porous, a polymeric structure where the voice, agency, geography, and temporality of others collude to produce a more compelling version of the world.  Brixton, Los Angeles, Accra, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, etc., spinning a new distributed off-axis center. 

I was having a hard time describing what I was seeing. So I'll show you instead.  Pictures of power and pride and grief and desire and confusion and community and celebration and abandonment and of a wandering itinerant solitude.

 I want to hold all of these things together in this synthetic moment.

The exhibition brings together a disparate group of artists who use photography almost as a will to power, an assertion of their own positionality.  A compound description of the world as vast and contingent. -- David Hartt, 2017

Featuring: 

Liz Johnson Artur

James Barnor

Kwame Brathwaite

David Hartt

Zoe Leonard

Christopher Williams

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