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 © Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig Aftermath 17, Aftermath series, 2008 Archival pigment print, 13.5x21"  © Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig Aftermath 18, Aftermath series, 2008 Archival pigment print, 13.5x21" |
Wilka Roig Born: Rio Piedras, PR Resides: Ithaca, New York Heritage: Puerto Rican Selected Exhibitions: Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY 2009 Philoctetes Center, New York, NY National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY Education: MFA, Cornell University, NY 2005 Awards: Vermont Committee of the National Museum Cornell Council for the Arts Residencies: Center for Photography at Woodstock, 2008 Publications: Nueva Luz, volume 13#3 (En Foco: Bronx, NY 2009) Camerawork, Vol. 34#2 (SF Camerawork: San Francisco, CA 2007) Light Work Annual, Contact Sheet #127, (Light Work: Syracuse, NY 2004) Artist Statement for the collaborative works of Tarrah Krajnak and Wilka Roig: “As ‘collaborative/women/minority’ artists, we actively explore the sameness and difference within the construct of identity, and the role and meaning of signifiers. We continually work with self-portraiture addressing issues of gender, body and representation, within various sociological contexts, engaged in the process of photography as performance. (untitled # ), our first collaborative project, is composed of several interrelated series, including Pose Archive and Aftermath. Each segment of this project is a layer that further uncovers its meaning. We enact and record a deconstructive visual analysis, shifting our scrutiny from art institution to artist to art object to audience. Through our performances we expose the rhetoric underlying representational strategies and question their relationship to history and contemporary culture. We invite the viewer to assess, not merely consume, the motifs recurring in contemporary art, its framework, and its presentation. In Aftermath, we interrupt the consumption of works on display and disrupt the institution, considering the space itself, its design, storage and display strategies, and approaches with the art object. In Pose Archive, we remove the context and perform the woman’s pose found from classical art to contemporary art, and from advertisement and fashion to pornography. As we perform each pose we point to the current self-feeding cycle of representation. We comment on the myth behind the correct or ideal pose, as well as on the extreme compliance and submission that each recognizable pose demands from the average woman’s body. ---We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art for their encouragement and support in making Aftermath possible. Tarrah & Wilka Website: http://www.tarrahwilka.com, http://www.wilkaroig.com |
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