Photographer Hannah Starkey’s work often reflects on the everyday experiences of women, just as she is often reflecting more literally in her compositions. The Belfast-born artist likes to obfuscate or filter her subjects through glass – to the point of near-invisibility in her self-portrait that makes up one eighth of her new collection In the Company of Mothers.
Starkey is barely visible amid the gilt edge and gold lame of the shop window. In another image, a dark-skinned mother and child are wrapped in shadow on a vibrantly colourful wall canvas, another two see the women’s faces hidden by other means. Such staging has become an increasingly important aspect of Starkey’s work; always interested in women as subjects, she aims to examine life’s common occurrences and happenstance, along with more posed compositions. In the Company of Mothers is showing at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City, until 25th May.
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Installation view
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Self portrait, February 2013
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All images courtesy the artist and
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
