Oolite Arts | Rose Marie Cromwell
Date
(Saturday April 23rd, 2022) 12:00am - (Sunday August 21st, 2022) 11:59pm(GMT-05:00)
Details
Miami, culturally synthetic and economically unequal city has a vulnerable ecosystem due to climate change and the porous limestone on which it stands. Miami represents a change that the whole country
Details
Miami, culturally synthetic and economically unequal city has a vulnerable ecosystem due to climate change and the porous limestone on which it stands.
Miami represents a change that the whole country may eventually undergo as globalization is exacerbated here. Miami residents live in close proximity to industrial spaces that house goods to fuel the global economy. The city is a patchwork of disjointed residential, commercial, and industrial neighborhoods, many of which are rapidly gentrifying. The local environment is neglected often in the mirage that is global commerce. I depict the confrontation of an increasingly globalized world with the intimacy of individual lives. I am looking for moments when there is a strong individual narrative and the deep spirituality prevalent in Miami emerges.
To depict the geographic and multicultural complexity of Miami, I photograph still lifes, abstract landscapes, street scenes, and performances. Photography is often used to describe specific geographies. While I work in the tradition of documentary photography, I use a more conceptual approach to propose an alternative narrative of Miami, that conveys the isolating and tantalizing essence of globalization and its effect on our intimate lives.
For this exhibition, in addition to prints framed in a conventional manner, I will experiment production and presentation methods, such as mounting photographs to raw plywood and printing on commercial vinyl, in order to bring the images and the materials they depict closer together. A small selection of found objects Cromwell has gathered while photographing around Miami will also be included as readymade sculptures to further evoke the textures of the city..
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