Josephine Sacabo: Salutations at HRAC
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Hammond Regional Arts Center 217 East Thomas Street, Hammond, Louisiana 70404
Organized by and from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Hammond Regional Art Center presents the largest presentation to date of works from surrealist Josephine Sacabo's "Salutations" series. In Salutations, Sacabo combines collaged and distorted photographic images with a wet collodion-on-metal process that dates back to the nineteenth century, and creates a world barely recognizable as such. Throughout Sacabo's work, half-materialized visions of certain elements appear and reappear—an apple, a bird, a window, the female form—as if to suggest some kind of narrative buried beneath the layers of fractured representation. Sacabo's imagery hovers like a memory or a dream in the space between the concrete and the ineffable, but as a whole her project concerns itself with establishing an enigmatic set of conditions—loss, solitude, melancholy, nostalgia—that create a space for interpretation.
The exhibit's opening reception will be May 11, 5 pm–8 pm, with a 6 pm presentation by Sacabo on her work. hammondarts.org.