Rebecca Latchmi Marimutu


For inquiries, commisions,
please contact me at:
︎ rebeccamarimutu@gmail.com

Portrait(s)
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Portrait (s), an  Exploitation and Repair (2020) 

Exploitation and Repair #1 (2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #1(2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #1(2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #2 (2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair#3 (2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #6(2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #5 (2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #3(2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #4(2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture Exploitation and Repair #5 (2020)6’x8’ Photosensitive Kraft Paper Sculpture

Photography provides the viewer space to look on-to another experience through the safety of their own -- standing outside the frame, and other those who are within. Marimutu works to subvert and orient this space of contemplation that photography provides, by blocking the gaze of the viewer onto the viewed. Her work conceals and protects that which lies under the paper, only showing the borders and edges of what was -- in the process, guiding the viewer to question their role in this obfuscation. Portrait(s), an exploration of exploitation and repair, consists of large photosensitive Kraft Paper sculptures that are intentionally composed to absorb the surrounding environment onto themselves as they weaken and decay.

By creating and repairing these portraits through accessible, durable, and charged materials, Marimutu works to address and remove the material and political hierarchy of picture-making, and imposes her own.

Contextual Exposure, Waller Gallery, Baltimore, MD - 2021
Press: Afro News, Artsy
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