Exhibition Dates: October 20 to November 28, 2021
Lingering Glimpses series, b&w silver gelatin print with pencil
Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present Lingering Glimpses, a solo exhibition by Soomin Ham. The show will be on view from October 20 to November 28, 2021.
About the work:
“Lingering Glimpses” is an ongoing project commemorating American soldiers who passed away in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This project was conceived in 2017 following Ham’s show, “Sound of Butterfly”, reflecting her personal loss. At that time, she happened across a news summary of the death toll of the soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. These many young lives lost affected her deeply and amplified her own sense of loss. Ham started then, to create a new body of works as reflection and remembrance, using random images of soldiers, unknown and anonymous, as an embodiment of this profound sadness.
Low-resolution images of the soldiers collected from the Web were processed and cropped to show only faces, and then each refined portrait was transferred to a transparent negative film. Traditional darkroom methods were used to create black and white silver gelatin prints. Reflecting the loss of lives cut short, the film was processed using an expired developer and no fixer. This method results in photos with unpredictable lives of their own as the images slowly fade and pass away.
About the artist:
Soomin Ham is a photographer and multimedia artist based in Washington D.C. area. Her work including photography, mixed media, and multimedia installations have been exhibited widely throughout the DC area, in New York, and in Seoul, Korea. Ham was selected for Art and Community Visual Arts Residency at the DCCA in Wilmington, DE in 2002. She is the recipient of D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Grants including an Individual Artists Fellowship Grant in 2003 and Small Projects Grant in 2001 and has received Visual Arts Fellowship 2019-20 from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Exhibition Dates: October 20 to November 28, 2021
Opening Reception: Sunday, October 24, 2 - 4 pm
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 am - 5 pm