The Notion Of Family (2002-present)
Solo exhibition
October 24th – November 23rd, 2013
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Campaign for Braddock Hospital (Save our community Hospital), The Notion of Family, Grey Area, with her series of black and white photographs, LaToya Ruby Frazier seeks to adjust and define a field of investigation over a period of around ten years: neighbourly relations, adjacency, juxtaposition, drawing up a realistic inventory of the black American middle class in the 2000’s.
Through her pictures, she has constructed a real alphabet, cement ensuring a certain level of cohesion between the presented elements, which lose their solitary status from that moment and appear as many actors in the set of the series. Her work can never be reduced to a simple description. Each photograph becomes a place of transit where a landscape providing asylum from daily events installs itself. Her images are lucky witnesses of a world we would like to brush off, of an everyday life put between brackets, one of social issues, of stumbling blocks, of the convergence of borders.
Courtesy of: Michel Rein, Paris
