NYAB Event - Kwabena Slaughter "Oh, Very, Yes!"

Kwabena Slaughter "Oh, Very, Yes!"

Smack Mellon

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Oh, Very, Yes! is an exhibition of my ongoing experiment with the idea of the photographic-scroll. Before the invention of photography, and the movie camera, the scroll was the way to depict a narrative that was taking place over time. A unique quality of the scroll is that all the scenes exist in one unbroken image. I have been trying to recover this unified presentation through photography. I modify and redesign manual cameras, increasing their film capacity, so they can make single images that occupy the entire length of a strip of film.
Installed in the gallery wall at Smack Mellon is a single expansive panoramic image. The work depicts multiple narrative “shorts” involving a single group of people. Figures repeat and scenes change as the stories play out over the length of one strip of slide film over fifty feet long.