Jeff Whetstone @ Julie Saul Gallery

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Jeff Whetstone @ Julie Saul Gallery

July 27th, 2018 by fstop

Jeff Whetstone: Batture Ritual
September 6 – October 27, 2018

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 6-8 pm

“Jeff Whetstone’s photographs and videos explore the micro- and macro-economies and ecologies along the Mississippi River’s batture near New Orleans, Louisiana. “Batture” is the French-creole term for the thin strip of weeds, trees, and mud between the water’s edge of the Mississippi River and the tall, hardened levees that contain its floods. The batture is ephemeral. It disappears when the river is high and re-emerges when the tide falls; it is swept and transformed. It is a cyclical land, untied to human time, unclaimed, and unowned, a temporary alluvial wilderness. Families fishing for food come within feet of international oil tankers and container ships that facilitate global trade. Whetstone does not depict the batture as a dividing line, but rather a magnet that draws all manner of life into contact.”

Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22nd Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10011

Location: New York, New York City, United States Type: Exhibition

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