Still, Moving Moving, Still
Friday, Jan 28 – Mar 12, 2022201 S. Ashland
Chicago, IL 60607
Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman
Still, Moving Moving, Still
Slemmons Gallery
January 28, 2022 to March 12, 2022
To schedule a viewing appointment, contact us at art@epiphanychi.com.
About the Exhibition
To look through a now-obsolete camera is to reflect upon human histories. Layering the view in time, we photographed the oak lined banks of the Milwaukee River with the Kodak BullsEye #2 camera. Retrofitting the camera to function created overlapping exposures and unpredictable intervals. Re-photographing the film negative with a hand-held iPhone in panorama mode formed undulations of wavering focus, distance and movement, evoking the ebb and flow of human mediation on the land and water.
About Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman
Photographic collaborators Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman examine the confluence of history, myth and popular culture to frame contemporary tales and critique the social landscape. Their interest in photography’s storytelling potential engages with the edge between the heroic and commonplace through a wide range of subject matter. They have been working together for over four decades, employing staged photography, studio constructions, documentary, alternative processes and artists’ books in their practice. Their work has been exhibited in the US and internationally and is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, H2–Augsburg Center for Contemporary Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Walker Art Center, and Worcester Art Museum. Their artists’ books are in the collections of the Yale Center for British Art, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Hirsch Library at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Joan Flasch Artists Book Collection, and Bainbridge Island Arts Museum among others. They maintain studios in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois.
Image: Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman, River 1, 2021