Tabitha Soren
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Introduction
Archetypal figures struggle to escape or arrive – the viewer cannot be sure. Uncertainty, chaos and vulnerability hover over the RUNNING universe. These are elemental fears made visible. Movement provides an opportunity for loss of control, un-self-consciousness. A theater of the absurd unfolds as she describes our shared instinct to survive. The figures stumble, grimace and lose composure. They are both wounded and heroic.
Aperture, New York, NY, United States
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Running, Tabitha Soren, Blurb, Oakland, 2014
Artist Statement
I left a career in television in 1999 to start another as a photographer. My work speaks to the twists of fate in life that can unhinge us. Public collections include the Oakland Museum of Art, Transformer Station, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Phoenix Art Museum and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
I was born into a military family and grew up all over the world. Snapshots were one of the few ways I had to remember the details that made up my life in the last town or base — so I took them incessantly and spent many afternoons cataloguing them. I headed to New York City for college where I received a BA in Journalism and Politics at New York University. After a career in television news shooting 30 frames a second, I decided I wanted to concentrate on one frame at a time and spent a year studying photography at Stanford University. Over the past ten years, my projects have been published in The New York Times Magazine, BLINK, Vanity Fair and New York, among others. My work speaks to the twists of fate in life that can unhinge us. My pictures address what havoc human beings can survive — and what they can't. Public collections include the Oakland Museum of Art, in California, Transformer Station in Ohio, the New Orleans Museum of Art, The Phoenix Art Museum and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, both in Louisiana.
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