Transformer 1404 P Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
202-483-1102
Domesticated Men
Al Miner, Curator
Opening May 16
Curator & Artist Talk 4pm | Reception 5 - 8pm
Closing June 20
2 pm Curator & Artist Talk
"Men have historically been posited as providers for and not integrated inhabitants of the home. Notions such as the Victorian period's focus on the matriarch as the "angel of the hearth" and the 1950s ideal of the nuclear family have shaped this perception. While a man's home may still be his castle, his relationship to it has changed. Despite this progress, many photographers today choose to portray women alone in domestic interiors, often with a sexualizing gaze. The photographers of Domesticated - Yolanda del Amo, Amy Elkins, Dru Donovan, and Jamil Hellu - challenge such notions by depicting men in domestic interiors, capturing moments of complex masculinity that can only occur behind the closed doors of the home."
[text and image from Transformer Facebook Event page. Caption: "Amy Elkins. "Kyle, New York, NY, 2008." Courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery.]
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