Lately I have been interested
in portraiture and how the pairing of portraits to pictures of an object or
place helps to create a narrative. I was interested in Vanessa Winships series
titled Georgia. This exhibition is essentially an investigation of the people
of Georgia. I found the images to have a sense of oddity to them. For example
the portraits portrayed these well-dressed, confident children but they all
seemed very somber or unhappy. Even the
selection of landscapes shows a once elegant place now turning into ruin.
The pairing of adolescence
with the crumbling city suggests an interesting narrative. To me it kind of
speaks to the children are our future, how our past will eventually affect our
children. So I guess the somberness that I felt was presented in the portraits
could be because these children have to exist in a society that is crumbling. I
don’t know if this assumption is true but the parings of the desolate city and
the portraits really do that for me.
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