30 November 2012 - 12 January 2013
Flowers is pleased to present a selection of photographs from
Edmund Clark's Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out. Clark
pairs his images with a collection of correspondence titled Letters
to Omar and a multimedia installation. Together these visuals
confront the assumptions and stereotypes about the Guantanamo Bay
detention center. The exhibition will run from November 30th, 2012
through January 12th, 2013, with an opening reception for the
artist on Thursday, November 29th, 6-8pm. An artist talk will also
take place in the gallery on Saturday, December 1st at 4pm.
Edmund Clark is known for his work exploring incarceration through
the use of photography, found imagery, and text. In Guantanamo:
If The Light Goes Out (2010), he examines three ideas of home:
The naval base that is home to the American community at
Guantanamo; the complex of camps where the detainees have been
held, and the homes, new and old, where former detainees now find
themselves trying to rebuild their lives. His disorientating
narrative evokes the psychological aftereffects on these men.
Clark's quiet and restrained style melds documentary and fine art
imagery. His photographs are absent of people, speaking to the
identities that have been stripped away. At Guantanamo he had to
switch from his 5x4 inch film camera to mediumformat digital
equipment, so that his photographs could be censored by security
personnel at the end of each day. His meticulous imagery narrates
the experience and contradictions of Guantanamo-where 167 prisoners
are still held.
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