Show Hours:
Thursday, March 17 11:00am - 7:00pm
Friday, March 18 11:00am - 7:00pm
Saturday, March 19 11:00am - 7:00pm
Sunday, March 20 11:00am - 6:00pm

Lisa Sette Gallery is pleased to present a special solo exhibition by noted New Zealand photographer Fiona Pardington at the AIPAD 2011 Photography Show in New York. The exhibition will include work from two related series, Ahua: A Beautiful Hesitation and The Language of Skulls.

Ahua is a Maori word for "likeness". Pre-dating photography, life-casts became the most accurate method to capture an individual's portrait, and were also used in the 19th century pseudo-science of phrenology. Fiona Pardington's large-scale photographs re-document the castings of indigenous people encountered during French explorer Dumont d'Urville's 1837 voyage to the South Pacific as well as examples of phrenology busts from the time period. Both subjects ultimately informed the anthropological understanding of humanity.

These scientific castings of life-masks are reintroduced to us through the contemporary view of the camera and Fiona Pardington's lens. In Pardington's words, "Time is everything to a photographer - how we situate ourselves and others in time; how the past is served up in the present; how we take the present in to the future when we take or own a photograph. Death, life, and likeness - that is a photograph."

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