Fri 9/3 @ 5-8PM
The Cleveland Print Room’s next show, dubbed Dead Wax and Distant Transmissions, is a double-handed one, featuring the work of its 2020 Peer Show award winners Ilenia Pezzaniti and Christine Zuercher.
Zuercher, a Dayton native, who currently teaches at Kent State University, combines a fascination with space to an interest in alternative photo processes, such as gum bichromate, which she used for “Distant Transmissions.” She says, “Our understanding of reality continues to be shaped by technology and how we use it to explore the unknown. Distant Transmissions explores ways in which the subjectivity of photography can be used to rewrite and re-imagine a history that includes the powerful role of the female explorer.”
Pezzaniti, who contributed the “Dead Wax” part of the show, is a visual storyteller/photojournalist based in Akron. “In May of 2020, I gave 12 people living alone one disposable camera each,” she explains. “The photos they made within a two-week period hang next to their portraits, giving us snapshots into their daily lives during a time of government required isolation. As I reflect back on the novel year, I think of a needle tracking dead wax: the record still spinning, humming along a locked groove, waiting to be flipped.”
The show opens with a free, public reception Friday September 3 @ 5-8pm.