Nadia Huggins created her exhibition showcasing the boundaries between land and sea, through a collection of filmic and photographic work captured on the island of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
My main attraction to this exhibition was the style of layout the artist had chosen, by choosing similar style photographs all positioned on multiple canvases next to each other gives the impression of a story being told throughout the photos, as if they are portraying a timeline of events. The exhibitions aim is to invite the viewer to contemplate the power and expanse of the ocean which is juxtaposed against communities who are most effected and nurtured by it.
‘The relationship between myself and the subject is also explored within this paradigm. The subjects are aware of me while posturing but lose this cognisance when they sink into the water, it is the movement that tells the story’
The idea behind Nadia Huggins work is to capture intimate scenes of a group of adolescent males, documenting a choreography of bodies underwater. The work transverses an irradiated border between deep submergence and spectral surfaces, framed by dramatic costal landscapes, the work reveals youthful vulnerability in her subjects.
Although this exhibition isn’t relevant to my choice of theme for Black History Month, i think it was a beautiful exhibition that uses powerful photography to tell a story.
