EXHIBITION DETAILS

Photograms: Life Illuminated | Leigh Anne Langwell

August 2- September 28, 2013

STATEMENT

“I have always envisioned the core of the body as somehow illuminate—a self contained lighting storm.” Leigh Anne Langwell Leigh Anne Langwell’s search for meaning via the human body affords the audience a sensual experience of photography. Upon experiencing the artist’s immense mural, Dark Field (1999), it is clear that Langwell’s photograms break and exceed traditional photographic strictures. Dark Field conjures feelings of connection with the universe simultaneous with the inner workings of the body. Through the presence of fluidity, ambiguous content and contrasts of dark and light, pure and impure, Langwell’s work elicits bodily responses of disruption, pleasure, and wonder. The five-panel piece is a vision of energy, life and death simultaneously. “It harbors within it an excess, a rapture, a potential of associations that overflows all the determinations of its “reception” and “production.” Jean Francois Lyotard