For Your Pleasure and Enjoyment
The photographic works of Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange set in dialogue with Amy Jorgensen, focuses on small southern Utah Mormon communities set in isolation. Such framing of the Mormon people as set apart emphasizes what Tyrrel Given's calls "the rhetoric of difference" and makes reference to the historic exile, persecution, and subsequent gathering of the Mormon people to a location of refuge. Such gatherings were experimentations of communal living saturated with utopia hopes that were organized around the primacy of a sacred space much like the structure of Salt Lake City. Read more...
--Laura Hurtado, curator
The photographic works of Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange set in dialogue with Amy Jorgensen, focuses on small southern Utah Mormon communities set in isolation. Such framing of the Mormon people as set apart emphasizes what Tyrrel Given's calls "the rhetoric of difference" and makes reference to the historic exile, persecution, and subsequent gathering of the Mormon people to a location of refuge. Such gatherings were experimentations of communal living saturated with utopia hopes that were organized around the primacy of a sacred space much like the structure of Salt Lake City. Read more...
--Laura Hurtado, curator
For Your Pleasure and Enjoyment, 2008, archival pigment print
installation view, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013
Edition of 5
installation view, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013
Edition of 5