Reception for Copper Giloth's Art Exhibition: The Practice of Daily Life
In the fall of 2002, Copper Giloth began an eleven-month residency in the town of Aix-en-Provence in southern France. Using a digital camera, Giloth examined the ordinary practices of town residents, workers, visitors, and motorists, seeking to discover the order and disorder in the patterns of daily life. She photographed construction sites, street cleaning, markets, cafes, visitors at tourist sites, poster installations, postal deliveries, and numerous other activities and events.
Giloth's photographs are more than a visual record of the townscape of Aix-en-Provence as seen by someone on the outside looking in. As viewers, we are drawn into her process of engagement, and the nature of this place as it exists in time. Each of Giloth's works is comprised of numerous photographs arranged in a square or rectangular grid. The radical cropping she employs in each frame, together with the choices she makes in the arrangement of multiple images, reveals both the abstract and the decriptive aspects of her experience, her internal dialogue, and her vision of what we all share. When viewed collectively, they call attention to how we actually perceive- how we integrate detail within the whole.
In her examination of everyday life, what we can observe in others, and what we can recognize in our own experience, Giloth offers us a perceptible intelligence, reflecting both her analytic process and what she has captured of her exuberant, curious, and ultimately beautiful subjects.
Copper Frances Giloth - giloth@oit.umass.edu
“Pollarding the Plane Trees #1, Aix-en-Provence”, (Étêtage des Platanes), lightjet print, 24” x 24”, 2006
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Herter Art Gallery is located at the north end of Herter Hall west of the Fine Arts Center. Public parking is available at all times behind the Robsham Vistors Center and at meters along Haigis Mall. Nights and weekends parking is also available in Lot #71 west of the Whitmore Administration Building.