Amanda Grace Finkel

What does it mean to respond to your own body? How can the body be visible and invisible at the same time? How is the performance of self-portraiture another way of considering the body? Where does physicality lie within a flat plane?

I am photographing myself, printing the image, and re-photographing in front of the new print. As layers build up, the bodies begin to seep into one another, creating an image that is complex and impenetrable. The intimacy of interaction with the self begins to push outward and invites the viewer into the tender gestures. Printed slightly larger than life and in black and white, the medium of photography begins to blur into collage. This process describes the making and unmaking of my identity.

2020:

Published in: International Photography Annual 7 (INPHA 7), Manifest Gallery 

2019:

How Do I Call Myself Back to The Body?, Kitchen Table Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.

2018:

Field Day, Hopkins Hall Gallery

Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Cox Fine Arts Center, Columbus, OH

Collision, Beeler Gallery, Columbus, OH