The Exposure Project: Gigi Gatewood

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Gigi Gatewood

I recently discovered the work of Gigi Gatewood. Her series of still lives explore how objects exist as symbolic representations of nature and human behavior. In her statement she writes:

"How does each of us come to terms with the unknown? Using photography, I am building a series of still-lives that individually symbolize different belief systems or strategies of understanding the world. Collectively, they represent an exploration of the fundamentals of religion, science, and magic. I am interested in the distinction between what we know and what we believe. I am studying replicas of natural subjects, by which we understand and represent nature. These objects are romanticized translations of reality, infused with our understandings of the world around us and with our desire to gain control over it, thus creating a space that exists somewhere between reality and the imaginary."

Gatewood's work can be seen in the PRC's inaugural Juried Publication, which will be distributed in their fall issue of In The Loupe.