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Holly Wright Challenges Our Sense of Self-importance
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Holly Wright Challenges Our Sense of Self-importance

Last updated: December 26, 2024 11:43 pm
Editorial Board Published December 26, 2024
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Holly Wright, “Final Portrait: Vivian and Bob Folkenflik” (1983) (all pictures courtesy the Fralin Museum of Artwork until in any other case famous)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — “Vanity” is a type of phrases freighted with cultural baggage, from the Bible (“all is vanity”) to philosophy (“Vanity is the fear of appearing original,” per Nietzsche) to literature (Ezra Pound’s “Pull down thy vanity”). At an exhibition of images by Holly Wright on the Fralin Museum of Artwork, the phrase takes on connotations from “vain” to “vanitas.”

Holly Wright: Self-importance opens with the titular sequence of images, 10 close-ups of the artist’s arms from 1985 to ’88. Is it useless to {photograph} one’s arms? Maybe, however with out a close by wall textual content, you is perhaps hard-pressed to make out precisely what a part of the physique you’re taking a look at. Utilizing numerous blurring results, Wright highlights creases, cracks, and folds, remodeling them into fleshy abstractions. These will be considerably unsettling. A picture of 4 fingernails seemingly pressed into pores and skin, as an example, is perhaps learn as enamel. Two photographs subtitled “Black Hole” characteristic deep wells of darkness inside the tight universe of the hand.

Within the 1993 sequence Poetry, Wright presents contact sheet-like preparations of photographs of the mouth of her husband, Charles Wright, in mid-recitation. In these close-ups, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former United States Poet Laureate is decreased to, effectively, a mouthpiece, his lips, typically in partial shadow, forming phrases we can not hear. Though these stop-action takes will be fascinating, these works actually “pull down [his] vanity.”

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Holly Wright, “Untitled” (1985–88), silver gelatin print, 21¼ x 28½ inches (~54 x 72.4 cm)

The poet additionally appeared in one other Wright sequence, True Saints (1980–84), which options portraits of family and friends taking part in the elements of biblical figures. “My particular interest,” the artist as soon as stated of those enactments, “is role-playing and self-images, what is real and what is authentic faking.” 

This makes for a pleasant segue to the third sequence within the present, Closing Portraits (1980–1983). For these full-length research, Wright requested her topics to think about how they may greet loss of life — how they might look, what they might put on, and many others. In “Vivian and Bob Folkenflik” (1983) the eponymous couple lies aspect by aspect, loosely holding arms, prepared to fulfill their maker with what seems to be open-eyed steadfastness. The main points pull you in: her sandals, his wrinkled-at-the-knees pants, the leaf sample of the sheet upon which they lie.  For his earthly finale, the Wrights’ son, Luke, selected to arm himself with rifle, hatchet, and knife, his small physique stretched out on the bottom in a chilling vanitas picture of loss of life amidst life.  

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Holly Wright, “Untitled” (1993), silver gelatin print, 24 x 20 inches (~61 x 50.8 cm) (picture Carl Little/Hyperallergic)wQ4Up 1

Holly Wright, “Final Portrait: Luke Wright” (1982), 64 x 32 inches (~162.6 x 81.3 cm)

Holly Wright: Self-importance continues on the Fralin Museum of Artwork by way of January 5, 2025. The exhibition was curated by Hannah Cattarin and M. Jordan Love.

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