I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki SmithI Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith
North Galleries
March 6, 2010 – August 15, 2010
Comprising loans from the artist’s archives and several private collections, this exhibition will explore a number of distinct ways photographs play a central role in the development of Smith’s aesthetic and in the creation of her art. Among the remarkable range of Smith’s photographic works, the exhibition will feature hand-made composites, diaristic snapshots, video collaborations, and unique takes on computer-based techniques. Conceived as a series of distinctive installations, the exhibition will incorporate dense arrangements of snapshots that suggest how Smith thinks visually, along with large-scale presentation photographs of her sculptures, and sequences of staged narratives – Smith’s unique versions of traditional fairy tales. It will juxtapose source photographs from the beginning of a project with the sculptures they inspired. The exhibition will also feature examples of important early experiments with captured images, such as the slide show-performance Life Wants to Live (1982), and the artist’s animations of 19th-century motion photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.