Erica Deeman: Silhouettes
March 8 - June 11, 2017
BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
2155 Center Street
Berkeley, CA
This exhibition presents Erica Deeman's series Silhouettes, thirty large-scale photographs of women from the African diaspora. Deeman's portraits employ the silhouette in conscious reference to the technique's use in the eighteenth-century pseudoscience of physiognomy. Deeman's work reveals the beauty of diverse physiognomies and suggests her subjects' power and strength of character through the scale and grace of her images.
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