Lana Z. Caplan : Watch This
Films and Photographs
October 31 - December 16, 2007
Continuous showings, After the Pope, Caplan's 4 minute film Saturday-Sunday, October 27-28, 2007
Reception Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6 - 8 p.m.
Artist Talk Thursday, November 8, 2007, 6 p.m.
Gallery Talk Wednesday, December 5, noon
Lana Z. Caplan is a Boston-based multimedia artist who works with historic photographic processes and film. Her approach to making images is tied to her thematic concerns, which revolve around the growth, death, and decay of living things.
Caplan's photographs, shot in international locations, present the contemporary appearances of places used for hangings, beheadings, and burnings, some in the transient fury of revolution, some in long-term state-sanctioned spectacles. Short films depicting these historic sites will also be shown.
Read more about the artist and her work at www.lanazcaplan.com.
Site of Public Execution by Burning at the Stake of Girolamo Savonarola, May 23, 1498
Piazza della Signoria, Florence, 2007, Sepia-toned silver print (1/3), 20 x 21 inches
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