Georgia Metaxas' new exhibition The Mourners begins 17 May 2011 at the CCP.
Georgia recently presented the very popular series of photographic self-portrait workshops at MGA and works from her 2007 series Lower your ears are held in the MGA Collection.
CCP website states, "The Mourners is a series of portraits documenting the ritual of wearing black as a signifier of perpetual mourning. In remembrance of those they have lost, all that sit for a portrait in the series wear black everyday for the rest of their lives.
The controlled environment of a traveling studio replaces existing backdrops of nursing home corridors, living rooms and church halls. Stripped back to the point where only the faintest trace of the sitter's surroundings remain, the portrait brings the viewer to the periphery of an ultimately private space.
Deflecting the unflinching eye of the camera with an averted gaze, the women are absorbed by the void that is black, living mementos – vessels for mourning, fixed by a photograph, which in turn alludes to a double death."
image:
Georgia METAXAS
Untitled # 1 from the series The Mourners 2010-2011
archival inkjet print
50.8 x 40.12cm
courtesy of the artist
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