- Title: Lecture - 'Casting Shadows, redux'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 01/26/2004 - 01/26/2004
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
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- Description: Edward West, School of Art + Design
- Detailed Information: In this talk, Edward West revisits his extraordinary series of photographs, Casting Shadows: Images of South Africa, in the Institute’s Osterman Common Room where a selection of images from that luminous, painterly series are on display, January 12 – February 20. Each image draws us in and then out of the shadows, around the corners, through the backyards, illuminating the strength and vibrancy of the Black community in post-apartheid South Africa. Definitive color celebrates and enunciates this sense of community and expresses the complexity of a human experience we all share amidst shadow and light. “It is there,” West explains, “that people find the richness of life in exchanges with their community. Those things that speak to a common humanity, which reveal the dignity in all these lives. It is not about what they lack, but rather, what they have in this moment of redefinition.”
West (School of Art and Design) has exhibited widely, including at the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of American Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 2002-2003, he was a Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities.
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