LabourLove Gallery
January 15, 2010 to March 15, 2010
11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Photography Exhibition
Admission: Free, Open to public
Parking: Main, Visitor and Auxillary Parking Lots
Safe.Keep.ing. (saf'ke'ping) The act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
SafeKeeping is Lori Vrba's first solo show in the United States. She recently finished a solo show at the prestigious Lishui Photo Festival, China, and has studied with internationally recognized photographers Keith Carter, Tony O’Brien and Sarah Meghan Lee. Her photographs have been nationally recognized. This is an art collectors and art lovers MUST SEE event!
Opening reception Friday, January 15 @ 6PM.
Artist statement
I've spent the last year exploring the desire to protect that which is, or is perceived to be vulnerable or sacred. As a mother to three young children I am present not only to the maternal urge to lock away the sensuality of a young girl or the exposed emotions of an adolescent boy, but also that they, like all humans, have feelings, secrets, treasures, and relationships that are for safekeeping. Innocence, love, memories...even the earth itself is vulnerable. With this project, I am examining what we want to protect, how we do that and when it is simply impossible. I love exploring this idea with the camera, given that a photograph is, in and of itself, safekeeping...holding a parcel of time.
I work in medium format black and white film, which I process myself. I print each image in a tradtional wet darkroom on fiber paper, which I then tone in tea and selenium.
