It’s NEGATIVE
Closing Event: Saturday May 29, 11AM-6PM
Open Appointments
Join us for the closing event including book and poetry reading by artist Tarrah Krajnak in celebration of successful ending of this group exhibition “It’s NEGATIVE”.
Artists: Alex Turner, Aline Smithson, Jonas Yip, Odette England, Rafael Soldi, Tarrah Krajnak, Tomiko Jones, and Tooraj Khamenehzadeh
Curated by Labkhand Olfatmanesh
This exhibition is highlighting the diverse and innovative nature of their individual practices to explore different definitions of negative using the lens based medium and shared artistic, social, personal and political issues influencing negative photography.
Artist Tarrah Krajnak will be reading selections from her new book “El Jardîn De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan” published by DAIS books. Also, book signing by Tarrah on limited quantities of her book available for purchase.
Reading begins promptly at MiM Courtyard, 4:30 pm
Krajnak’ book, titled after a 1941 story by Jorge Luis Borges, El Jardín de Senderos Que Se Bifurcan, explores the process of tracing origins amidst contradictory familial narratives. Indigenous to Peru and orphaned as an infant Krajnak was adopted into a working-class transracial family from the American coal country and raised as a twin to her African American brother. This early experience of racial difference established her ongoing preoccupation with belonging, orphanhood, ancestral exile, origins, and the way these constructs are written on the body and in the archive.
Krajnak further describes the book as, “moving between found vernacular photographs, my own original writing and photography, and appropriated images taken from 1979 political magazines that I collected in Lima, Peru. I am interested in sites of violence against women, and the stories of missing women, children, and forced migration or displacement as a result of the trauma of war.
Image: Tarrah Krajnak
