Gospel Flat Show Space is pleased to present Rib, an exhibition of photographs by Johanna Case-Hofmeister. Following the stranding of a blue whale in Bolinas CA, Case-Hofmeister embarked on a five-year project centered around the aftermath of whale mortalities in the United States, Canada, and the Arctic. The visceral photographs in color and black-and-white, made from a non-documentary stance, investigate contrasting worlds, approaches in the processing of whales, and their social, cultural, and political significance. Returning to Bolinas, this is the first showing of the project, Rib.
The subjects in Rib, captured with rawness, reveal elusive moments. A group of nuns take a portrait with a whale skull on a beach, a researcher degreases a rib in a pool of icy water in a snowstorm. Two marine biologists conducting a necropsy on a humpback are juxtaposed with a First Nation couple processing a whale for their family. The only subjects that look directly into the lens confronting the viewer are whales. Case-Hofmeister has collaborated with scientists, researchers, subsistence hunters, and community members at whale stranding sites to reflect on complex human interactions and conflicting points of view.
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The subjects in Rib, captured with rawness, reveal elusive moments. A group of nuns take a portrait with a whale skull on a beach, a researcher degreases a rib in a pool of icy water in a snowstorm. Two marine biologists conducting a necropsy on a humpback are juxtaposed with a First Nation couple processing a whale for their family. The only subjects that look directly into the lens confronting the viewer are whales. Case-Hofmeister has collaborated with scientists, researchers, subsistence hunters, and community members at whale stranding sites to reflect on complex human interactions and conflicting points of view.
Gospel Flat Show Space is pleased to present Rib, an exhibition of photographs by Johanna Case-Hofmeister. Following the stranding of a blue whale in Bolinas CA, Case-Hofmeister embarked on a five-year project centered around the aftermath of whale mortalities in the United States, Canada, and the Arctic. The visceral photographs in color and black-and-white, made from a non-documentary stance, investigate contrasting worlds, approaches in the processing of whales, and their social, cultural, and political significance. Returning to Bolinas, this is the first showing of the project, Rib.
The subjects in Rib, captured with rawness, reveal elusive moments. A group of nuns take a portrait with a whale skull on a beach, a researcher degreases a rib in a pool of icy water in a snowstorm. Two marine biologists conducting a necropsy on a humpback are juxtaposed with a First Nation couple processing a whale for their family. The only subjects that look directly into the lens confronting the viewer are whales. Case-Hofmeister has collaborated with scientists, researchers, subsistence hunters, and community members at whale stranding sites to reflect on complex human interactions and conflicting points of view.
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The subjects in Rib, captured with rawness, reveal elusive moments. A group of nuns take a portrait with a whale skull on a beach, a researcher degreases a rib in a pool of icy water in a snowstorm. Two marine biologists conducting a necropsy on a humpback are juxtaposed with a First Nation couple processing a whale for their family. The only subjects that look directly into the lens confronting the viewer are whales. Case-Hofmeister has collaborated with scientists, researchers, subsistence hunters, and community members at whale stranding sites to reflect on complex human interactions and conflicting points of view.
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208 Olema Bolinas Road, Bolinas, CA 94924
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