Exhibitions, Italy, Genoa, Genova, 02 February 2011
BORN INVISIBLE
Photography exhibition by
SHEILA McKINNON
Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Matteotti 9, Genova
4 – 20 February 2011
10:00 – 19:00
Inauguration February 3, 2011, 6 p.m.
BORN INVISIBLE, a photography exhibition by Sheila McKinnon (www.sheilamckinnon.com) opens at the Palazzo Ducale of Genoa, Italy on February 3 and can be seen until February 20, 2011. It is organized by the Fondazione Eduardo Garrone in collaboration with AIDOS.
BORN INVISIBLE, young girls without a voice, adolescents on the edge…. The exhibition draws attention to the millions of young girls in developing countries who have no voice and are segregated to second-class citizenship from the moment of birth.
But through a new use of color, light and composition, the BORN INVISIBLE images reveal much more: the vitality, dreams, desires as well as the fragility and fears of these girls living in diverse countries and continents: India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Yemen, Morocco and the Caribbean.
“Sheila McKinnon’s images reveal the invisible.
The artist photographs in order to unveil what the naked eye doesn’t regularly perceive. But McKinnon does this in several ways. Not only because she photographs those who are BORN INVISIBLE – young women from developing countries who are generally excluded from the political and economic agenda of the planet’s power brokers - and not only because she investigates so many faces and their surprising richness, or the unexpected aspects of women’s lives. She penetrates darkness and mystery with a photographic eye, pursuing invisibility. Her vision seeks the grace in beings, and meets them over and above the anguish of rhetoric, over and above indelible abuse and offence: she sees them in their being, and celebrates them as a gift from and to life and joy, despite the hardships, the needs, the violence, the pain”.
Maria Giovanna Musso,
Docente di Sociologia del mutamento e Sociologia dell’arte
Università “La Sapienza”, Roma
Sheila McKinnon
www.sheilamckinnon.com
Sheila McKinnon was born in Canada and has spent most of her life in Italy. She has worked as a photographer and journalist in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East for various European and North American publications such as The New York Times, Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Die Welt, Beaux Arts Magazine, Saveur Magazine, the Toronto Globe & Mail, Elle Spain, Elle Hungary and for numerous Italian publications. She has collaborated with various humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF, FAO, AIDOS, Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Africare.
Recent photography books include Invisible Women, sponsored by the city of Rome; The Sacred Fire, photography of Indian weddings, published by Logart Press; On Their Side/Dalla parte dei bambini for UNICEF, dedicated to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and The Islands of Italy published by Houghton Mifflin USA.
Personal photography shows include Eyes at the Canadian Cultural Association in Rome; On Their Side/Dalla parte dei bambini for UNICEF, shown in all major Italian cities; INVISIBLE WOMEN in collaboration with the Shenker Institute and AIDOS, shown in Rome, Bologna, Milan and Sassuolo; INVISIBLE WOMEN and the ENVIRONMENT, presented by the Italian Ministry for the Environment in Syracuse, Italy on the occasion of the G8 meetings in April, 2009.
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Caterina Falomo - PennarossaPressLab
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Photography exhibition by
SHEILA McKINNON
Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Matteotti 9, Genova
4 – 20 February 2011
10:00 – 19:00
Inauguration February 3, 2011, 6 p.m.
BORN INVISIBLE, a photography exhibition by Sheila McKinnon (www.sheilamckinnon.com) opens at the Palazzo Ducale of Genoa, Italy on February 3 and can be seen until February 20, 2011. It is organized by the Fondazione Eduardo Garrone in collaboration with AIDOS.
BORN INVISIBLE, young girls without a voice, adolescents on the edge…. The exhibition draws attention to the millions of young girls in developing countries who have no voice and are segregated to second-class citizenship from the moment of birth.
But through a new use of color, light and composition, the BORN INVISIBLE images reveal much more: the vitality, dreams, desires as well as the fragility and fears of these girls living in diverse countries and continents: India, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Yemen, Morocco and the Caribbean.
“Sheila McKinnon’s images reveal the invisible.
The artist photographs in order to unveil what the naked eye doesn’t regularly perceive. But McKinnon does this in several ways. Not only because she photographs those who are BORN INVISIBLE – young women from developing countries who are generally excluded from the political and economic agenda of the planet’s power brokers - and not only because she investigates so many faces and their surprising richness, or the unexpected aspects of women’s lives. She penetrates darkness and mystery with a photographic eye, pursuing invisibility. Her vision seeks the grace in beings, and meets them over and above the anguish of rhetoric, over and above indelible abuse and offence: she sees them in their being, and celebrates them as a gift from and to life and joy, despite the hardships, the needs, the violence, the pain”.
Maria Giovanna Musso,
Docente di Sociologia del mutamento e Sociologia dell’arte
Università “La Sapienza”, Roma
Sheila McKinnon
www.sheilamckinnon.com
Sheila McKinnon was born in Canada and has spent most of her life in Italy. She has worked as a photographer and journalist in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East for various European and North American publications such as The New York Times, Newsweek, The International Herald Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Die Welt, Beaux Arts Magazine, Saveur Magazine, the Toronto Globe & Mail, Elle Spain, Elle Hungary and for numerous Italian publications. She has collaborated with various humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF, FAO, AIDOS, Comunità di Sant’Egidio, Africare.
Recent photography books include Invisible Women, sponsored by the city of Rome; The Sacred Fire, photography of Indian weddings, published by Logart Press; On Their Side/Dalla parte dei bambini for UNICEF, dedicated to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and The Islands of Italy published by Houghton Mifflin USA.
Personal photography shows include Eyes at the Canadian Cultural Association in Rome; On Their Side/Dalla parte dei bambini for UNICEF, shown in all major Italian cities; INVISIBLE WOMEN in collaboration with the Shenker Institute and AIDOS, shown in Rome, Bologna, Milan and Sassuolo; INVISIBLE WOMEN and the ENVIRONMENT, presented by the Italian Ministry for the Environment in Syracuse, Italy on the occasion of the G8 meetings in April, 2009.
More information:
Press officer
Caterina Falomo - PennarossaPressLab
Cell. +39 346.8513723
E-mail: caterina@pennarossapresslab.it
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