November 11 – January 23, 2000
From 1991 through 1994 Fenton taught in Japan. While living there Fenton assembled a series of visual metaphors that address the quiet strength of the Japanese people, as well as the fetishistic and ritualistic iconography of their culture, both traditional and contemporary. In her photographs, Fenton assembles visual metaphors that she hopes will address the quiet strength of the Japanese people as well as the fetishistic and ritualistic iconography of their culture, both traditional and contemporary. Fenton’s images involve a shallow and tightly composed space with solitary models who remain anonymous. Appropriated headgear, body treatment or props are her own creations, made solely for the sake of the photograph with primary concern for composition and esthetic impact. Fenton’s photographs are printed on fiber-based paper. They are then brown-toned and finally hand-painted with photographic oil pigments.
Installation Images
Susan Fenton, White Veil, 1997.
Hand Painted Gelatin Silver Print.