NYAB Event - Sage Sohier "Perfectible Worlds"

Sage Sohier "Perfectible Worlds"

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At Foley Gallery
Media: Photography

Sage Sohier's latest series of "contextual portraits" began with a photograph she took of her friend and his model railroad; a twenty year work-in-progress that traversed and had long overrun his entire basement. Sohier was taken by the man's uncommon devoutness to each detail of the minuscule landscape and set herself in search of his kindred extraordinaires; people with private passions and marvelous obsessions.

The photographs in Sohier's "Perfectible Worlds" portray such singular people; amid their voluminous collections, absorbed wholly into odd hobbies, heavily draped in adornments, or mounting their multitude of achievements. Whether it be by the constructions of small extravagant worlds, or reconstructions of the self, Sohier's subjects are all carving express utopias over which they can exert near-total control.

[Image: Sage Sohier “Man working on miniature barn, Shelburne, VT” (2004) 2004 30 x 40 in.]