The series titled my little ones by Sharon Lockhart has been selected by Doclisboa’17 in partnership with the Museu Coleção Berardo to represent documentary practices within contemporary art. Curated by Pedro Lapa, the exhibition recollects a series of photographs, videos, prints and objects that speaks out to the construction of children’s subjectivity and their particular way of negotiating their existence in space. The exhibition results from years of working with a group of kids and teenagers at the Youth Sociotherapy Center in Rudzienko, Poland.
Each piece exhibited serve
as a document of how these young individuals progressed emotionally throughout
the collaboration with the artist who prescribed them actions of psychological
weight. Focusing on the challenges related to the exploration of fear versus
trust, solitude versus companionship, the artworks bring light to the feeling
of insecurity kids have while learning how to navigate within the adults’ world.
Through a visual scheme based on choreographed performances the artist built a
channel where the subjects represent nothing but themselves, therefore
delineating a cathartic realism into a situation intended to seem otherwise.
The accentuation of
childhood as a step towards the feeling of independence suspends the audience
voyeurism into a place of refined composition and formal elements. Identity and
displacement are the background in which the subjects perform movements of
symbolic meaning as they overcome obstacles and express their privacy. It is
the thin line between hiding and revealing one’s persona that remarkably keeps
the audience emotionally invested at the same time it empowers the subjects. It
is with great pleasure that the public will experience each exhibition room that
has been minimally designed to enhanced the emotional and seemingly foreign
content of the work.
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