Eroded Histories: Photographs by Ruth Adams and Deborah Orloff
Posted on March 14, 2022
Photography and history are selective, and documentation within particular cultural environments can distort how history is remembered. This exhibition creates a dialogue about human society through the juxtaposition of two different bodies of work that deal with the artists’ overlapping interests in how we remember the past. Ruth Adams and Deborah Orloff both draw upon their cultural heritage and family histories to investigate memory within the context of the forced migration and persecution of their ancestors which caused the erasure of cultural histories.
Adams explores cultural memory through photographs of European cemeteries. Cultural memories are those transformative... Continue reading Eroded Histories: Photographs by Ruth Adams and Deborah Orloff