Maria da Conceição Pereira de Souza with the Fruits of the Island of Apeú-Salvador, Pará, Brazil
Artist
Sharon Lockhart
(American, born 1964)
Date1999
Mediumten framed chromogenic prints
Dimensionseach print: 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 in.)
Frame: 44.4 x 38.1 cm (17 1/2 x 15 in.)
Frame: 44.4 x 38.1 cm (17 1/2 x 15 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineAustin S. Garver Fund
Object number2001.76
Label TextIn 1998–99, Lockhart traveled to the Amazon rainforest with two Brazilian anthropologists who were studying the Apeú-Salvador people. During these trips, she analyzed the tension between a scientific drive to survey and classify versus the need to recognize individuals as subjects.
Here, Lockhart employs the same documentary approach favored by early anthropologists, including a front-facing gaze and repetition. Highlighted here are the diverse local produce Pereira de Souza models in each image. The “exotic fruits” illustrate how ethnographers seek to document what is most foreign, at least to the dominant Western culture. One also notes the subtle shifts in Pereira de Souza’s demeanor, indicative of how depictions of people are never truly neutral.ProvenanceBarbara Gladstone GalleryOn View
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