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"Double Life" - Kelli Connell - Visiting Artist in Photography - School of Art and Art History

Nov 5, 2021

05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Visual Arts Building, E125

107 River Street, Iowa City, IA 52246

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 KELLI CONNELL: DOUBLE LIFE
Lecture Friday November 5th, 5 – 6PM, room 125 Visual Arts Building
 
Kelli Connell’s twenty-year project with one model represents an autobiographical questioning of sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of the self in intimate relationships. The project explores polarities of identity such as the masculine and feminine psyche, the irrational and rational self, the exterior and interior self, and the motivated and resigned. By combining multiple photographic negatives of the same model in each image, the dualities of the self are defined by body language and clothing. The importance of these images lies in the representation of interior dilemmas portrayed as an external object: a photograph. Through these images, the audience is presented with “constructed realities”

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two people one set back on left in black head down, one in forefront in brown and black checkered top with large buttons looking ahead

Ascend, 2013

Kelli Connell is an artist whose work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer / sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J Paul Getty Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications of her work include PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, Light Work, and The Center for Creative Photography. Connell is an editor at SKYLARK Editions and also teaches at Columbia College Chicago.
 

Black and white image of Kelli Connell sitting at a table with binders on shelves behind her

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