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Christine Klassen Gallery

Oct 2025

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This body of photographs that embraces the use of analogue film capture without controls attempts to examine the false narrative the western wolrd places on sight as the dominant sense and how it affects the way we interact with the world, while simultaneously drawing on the distinct feeling of returning to somewhere you've never been before.  

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Created during a trip to Poland to learn about my families 16th-century Masovian history, these analog film photographs shot with cheap toy cameras embrace chance, un-intentional camera movements and multiple exposures -- relying on unpredictability as a key emotional element of image making.  

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A visual travel diary through place and time, featuring reactive dye prints on mulberry silk.

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The images were shown alongside handmade food I had prepared in the gallery, mushroom pierogi's and a dogwood drink from my great aunt Maria's recipes as it would be in her home, or in the same 16th century Masovian town. Bringing the act of sharing food together into a sterile gallery setting as a sensorial reminder that sight is not the only way to see the world.

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As Ellen Mara De Wachter wrote in her book More Than Eyes, Art, Food & The Senses - "The denigration of smell, taste, and touch-the senses most closely related to food-means they can be thought of as "othered" senses. These senses  have been, and sometimes still are, associated with groups, objects, and materials considered of lower cultural value. But from their peripheral position they provide an opportunity: they offer an alternative means for accessing and experiencing culture that understands the way the senses have been carved up and ranked, and eschews both the absolute primacy of vision over other senses and the brittle mind-body dualism inherited from Enlightment Europe."

 

A visual, communal and culinary thread, speaking to multiple senses, while tying unearthed personal histories to everyday kitchen rituals.

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