{"id":4128,"date":"2016-12-16T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2016-12-16T09:22:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T14:22:43","slug":"in-each-hand-i-keep-each-of-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2016\/12\/16\/in-each-hand-i-keep-each-of-my-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"In each hand I keep each of my eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hampshire College Art Gallery presents In each hand I keep each of my eyes, <\/em>featuring 15 photographs by Manuel \u00c1lvarez Bravo in Hampshire’s permanent art collection alongside work by 5 contemporary artists. Stay tuned for an online catalogue published at the closing of the exhibition, including close readings of key \u00c1lvarez Bravo photographs by current Hampshire student Haley Holsather, and a response to the exhibition from Arts Librarian Rachel Beckwith.<\/p>\n

In each hand I keep each of my eyes<\/h3>\n

Manuel \u00c1lvarez Bravo, Buster Graybill, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Dawit L. Petros, Nandita Raman, and Ani Rivera<\/strong>
\nCurated by Jocelyn Edens<\/p>\n

December 15, 2016 – January 15, 2017<\/p>\n

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Manuel \u00c1lvarez Bravo, Caja de visiones (Box of visions), 1938.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In 1997, Aperture<\/em> published a monographic issue devoted to Manuel \u00c1lvarez Bravo, one of the modern masters of photography. In an introductory text, writer Frederick Kaufman tells the story of finding a bowl of glass eyeballs\u2014ojos de santos<\/em>\u2014in the building where \u00c1lvarez Bravo was born. When Kaufman brought a few of these saints\u2019 eyes to \u00c1lvarez Bravo, the photographer immediately recited a line from Sor Juana In\u00e9s de la Cruz\u2019s sonnet \u201cRosy Obsession\u201d (#152): \u201cIn each hand I keep each of my eyes \/ so what I touch is all that I can see.\u201d The interview suggests that for \u00c1lvarez Bravo, the proposition of a kind of seeing that becomes touching opens up a maze of possibilities and a revelling in opacity: a set of questions that approach their objects sideways, rather than head on. But for Sor Juana, who objected to those who \u201cfit their spectacles with rosy lies,\u201d the proposition of seeing as touching was a demand for evidence-based reason.<\/p>\n

This exhibition attempts to hold both of these positions at once. Photographs by Manuel \u00c1lvarez Bravo are clustered around videos by contemporary artists Buster Graybill, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Dawit L. Petros, and Nandita Raman. Each chapter draws out the act of viewing alongside the representation or evocation of touch. Installed a-chronologically and a-historically, these works are linked through affinity rather than sameness, with common and divergent ideas entwined. At the same time, the exhibition insists that the specificity of each work emerges through proximity. The analysis of rural space, indigeneity, heritage, and the camera as a device for seeing that is particular to each work\u2019s commitment to a people, place, and time, sharpens through the evidence of one artist\u2019s work in contact with another.<\/p>\n

In each hand I keep each of my eyes<\/em> imagines one way of exploring the fifteen \u00c1lvarez Bravo photographs in Hampshire\u2019s permanent collection. It is designed as a first draft and is open to future iterations of exhibitions using this collection. The show will conclude with the publication of an online catalogue that will include close readings of many of the photographs, interviews with the contemporary artists, and other short-form contributions.<\/p>\n

Monday-Friday, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
\nSunday 2-5 p.m.
\nClosed Saturdays and for winter break, December 23-January 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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