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Tarrah Krajnak
Saturday, November 15 - 10:00AM to 11:00AM
NYFA: 3300 Riverside Drive, Burbank, CA, 91505
The late cultural theorist Stuart Hall has written that identities emerge as "unfinished conversations," formed "at the unstable point where personal lives meet the narrative of history." SISMOS79 (derived from the Spanish word for "earthquake") is a long-term photographic project that examines the particular sites of intersection between my own life and a turbulent period in the history of Lima, Peru. I set out not to recover some stable, "authentic" identity hidden by the circumstances of my birth and adoption, but rather to pull together archival materials, found photographs, narratives, and images in an effort to patch together, reclaim, or invent something like a psychic history of that year, and locate myself within it. The project is a multilayered one using a combination of fieldwork, archival research, re-photographic strategies, and staged portraiture. I take portraits of women born in 1979 in Lima, and make audio recordings of their personal histories. My research also consists of the collection of photographs, printed materials -- including pornographic, political, and crime magazines -- and other ephemera from that year. Using these materials in the studio, I create and photograph ensembles of objects, texts and images, creating new images and new meanings. I also hope to re-photograph sites of violence against migrant women documented in newspapers and magazines from that year.
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