Keisha Scarville @ Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York

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Keisha Scarville @ Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York

June 5th, 2018 by fstop

Keisha Scarville: Placelessness of Echoes(and kinship of shadows)
June 7th – July 7th, 2018

Opening Reception: June 7th, 6-8pm

“Inspired by Guyanese author Wilson Harris’s first novel, Palace of the Peacock, Scarville mines literature and philosophy on the “possessed, living landscapes.” She enters the environment with her camera, and, not without hesitation, allows her own relationship to the landscape to unfurl. She is an observer, who captures subtle variations in the night as previously concealed elements appear. Through documenting this process of emergence, Scarville establishes a framework through which the geographic complexities of a region — indigenous flora and fauna or artistic interlocutor — could witness its epistemology, history, and narrative and furthermore by knowing transform the darkness of place from an arena for fear into a place of power and belonging. The darkness enfolds allowing the separation between body and terrain to disappear managing to decenter the human as a defenseless prey. Rather than traffic in black and white or a duotone, Scarville highlights reds and golds as well as a blue mystical fogginess of night. Thereby allowing for an alchemic relationship between artist, myth, and history to ignite in this new space, where darkness is no longer inert, but becomes active perception.”

Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York
126 Baxter Street
New York, NY 10013

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

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