Parent Skins
Through a performative practie that is often as messy as it is captivating, Emilia White playfully questions social hierarchies and self-perceptions. In her Parent Skins series, White documents everyday moments made surreal by a partial erasure of the adult in the scene. Through “parent skins” - boldly colored suits worn by the artists and participants that cover their entire body - White reduces the representation of the parent to a simplified form and cartoon-like facial features. With the parent’s identity almost completely obscured, the resulting photographs comically depict the alienation that occurs betwen the self-as-parent and a previous identity as non-parent.
-Self Adjacent exhibition catalogue description, 2024
Self Adjacent, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Virginia, June 2025
Self Adjacent, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio 2024
Self Adjacent, Massey Klein Gallery, NYC 2024
Self Adjacent, Visual Arts Center, Richmond VA 2023
Maternal Interior, A2AC, Ann Arbor MI 2023
Painting at Night, Collar Works, Troy NY 2022
The Art of Motherhood, Sojourn Arts, Louisville KY, 2021
Something Growing Inside, TrustArt Gallery, Ann Arbor MI 2018
Self Adjacent exhibition, curated by Tracy Stonestreet and Sarah Irvin, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, November - January 2023
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