What She Saw

What She Saw
A Photographic Exhibition
Curated by Evonne M. Davis
207 Gallery
634 West 207th Street
New York, N.Y. 10034
November 2-23, 2007
Opening Reception November 2, 2007 7:30-9:30 pm.



Alicia Ackerman, Kathryn Allen Hurni, Manuela Paz and Emma Wilcox are exhibiting photographic explorations of personal space and reflection. While all the images in What She Saw compare public perception with private perception, each artist’s labors end in a different result. Alicia Ackerman’s photographs invoke a very private kind of humor, creating an eerie sense of being caught, found out or discovered. Beauty eroded is a theme in the work of Kathryn Allen Hurni’s manipulated Polaroid self-portraits, as well as the dark side of what is traditionally considered feminine. Closer to visual poetry than photography, Manuela Paz’s images are filled with longing, and questions. Emma Wilcox’s images of delicate pink baby shoes afloat in an ominous sea of black are challenges to ideas of gender identity in early childhood development.