Agoraphobia
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler
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Campaign for Braddock Hospital
(Save our Community Hospital). 2011
Photolithographs and silkscreen
12 parts, 43,2 x 35,6 cm each (unframed)
The Grey Area Series, 2011
4 gelatin silver prints
61 x 71,1 cm each (unframed)
Notion of Family, 2002 (ongoing)
4 gelatin silver prints
61 x 71,1 cm each (unframed)
In her photographs, LaToya Ruby Frazier, artist and activist, combines intimate extracts of her relationships with her grandmother and mother with the history of the working-class industrial town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised. Between intimate photography and social documentary, she reports the decline of this once prosperous steel-producing town, where poverty, unemployment and health problems relating to pollution have largely devastated the local population. Recently, the city was deprived of its community hospital, destroying even more jobs and making access to care difficult for residents of one of the most polluted regions in the United States. Ironically, in 2010, Braddock was the town chosen by the brand Levi’s as an emblematic city in which to create its advertising campaign focusing on the figure of "urban pioneers."
(From the handout of Agoraphobia)
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Prologue exhibition of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, TANAS, Berlin, 25 May - 27 July 2013. Curators: Fulya Erdemci and Bige Örer. Co-curator: Kevser Güler