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Catalog of an exhibition held 2020 October 26-December 10, at Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery at Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center, 316 Waverly Avenue, Syracuse, New York
"Light Work presents 'Heroine', a solo exhibition of work by Mexican-British multimedia artist and visual anthropologist Alinka Echeverría. 'Heroine' is the culmination of the artist’s extensive research into the representation of women and femininity since the origins of the medium of photography. 'With few exceptions, the place of women was before the lens, not behind it,' she acknowledges. As Echeverría immersed herself in the colonial archives of the Nicéphore Nièpce Museum in France, work she embarked on in 2015, the aesthetics of the fetishized and exoticized depiction of women both intrigued and appalled her. Directly referencing the 'inventor of photography,' Nicéphore Niépce, Echeverría titles this work more broadly as 'Fieldnotes for Nicéphora (incorporating the “a” at the end to feminize the name that he had adopted for its meaning: victorious)--thereby explicitly reframing the legacy of this white, male pioneer of photography to a feminist and postcolonial perspective."--Light Work description online at source URL: https://www.lightwork.org/product/contact-sheet-209-alinka-echeverria/