bretta c. walker
about
photolog
my dirty cunt & me / vol. 1 : the garden
2019
published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics & Evidence House
“to those who seek, the primary impulse is to return to The
Garden & the dark substrates of its mystery”
The Garden is the first volume in an unraveling photographic series titled My Dirty Cunt & Me, which dually operates as an exploration of the phantasmagoric and as documentation of Walker’s personal healing journey
this first installment seeks reparations with Nature on both interior & exterior landscapes while also investigating the noöspheric trauma passed down through menstrual blood
a journey through 5 garden landscapes :
Ecstasis
Hekat
The Sepulcher
Restoration & Zôion
Alchemy
collection of over 250 platinotypes, cyanotypes, & silver prints toned with various wildcrafted plant matter
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you can find this work archived at :
+ The International Center of Photography
New York, New York, USA
+ LABA
Brescia, Italy
+ Duke University Libary, Artist Books Collection
Durham, North Carolina, USA
+ Brown University Libary, Artist Books Collection
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
+ The Centre for Expanded Poetics
Montréal, Québec, Canada
installation view :
Anteism Gallery, Montréal, Canada
12/2019 - 1/2020
also exhibited as solo show:
PhotoEye Project Space, Santa Fe, U.S.A
2/2020 - 6/2020