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Black and white pigment print of bed skirt illuminated from behind.

Alana Perino

In a Condition
of No Light

My mother lives in a dark apartment with beautiful things that are easily broken. As a child, I lived there with my mother and eventually my stepfather as well.  As an adult, I return now and again to restage and reimagine the repertoires rehearsed there, across time and generations. This work explores the physical and psychological space of my childhood home and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that inform my somatic experience of that space. I create fictions rooted in autobiography about the plastic truths of the home, and how it serves as a stage for the performance of wealth, domesticity, whiteness, and gender. Because the work is about the apartment, it is also inevitably about the things in the apartment, and the people who occupy the apartment – all of which respond in strange and careful ways as we circumnavigate each other in the play of our given domestic roles. 

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Black and white pigment print of young adult sitting on older adult's lap surrounded by framed images, vases and busts.

Mother's Lap

Pigment Print / Photography
28 x 35 inches
2022

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Black and white pigment print of folded shirts emerging from cabinets and drawers.

Beautiful Shirts

Pigment Print / Photography
20 x 16 inches
2022

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Black and white pigment print of man sitting with his obscured image reflected in dining room table.

Reflection

Pigment Print / Photography
12 x 15 inches
2022

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Black and white pigment print of reclining figure wearing strung pearls on their face and neck.

Pearls

Pigment Print / Photography
12 x 15 inches
2022

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Color pigment print of busts in and around open suitcases.

Suitcases

Pigment Print / Photography
42 x 52.5 inches
2022

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Black and white pigment print of bed skirt illuminated from behind.

Bed Skirt

Pigment Print / Photography
22.5 x 18 inches
2022

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Black and white pigment print of living room with sprawling candle arrangement.

Ritual

Pigment Print / Photography
45 x 36 inches
2022

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Color pigment print of indent on floral chair cushion from an absent sitter.

Florals

Pigment Print / Photography
30 x 24 inches
2022

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Black and white pigment print of lilies having their pestles removed on a table.

Lilies

Pigment Print / Photography
8 x 10 inches
2022

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Mother's Dress

Pigment Print / Photography
20 x 25 inches
2022

 

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