Mary Mattingly - Nomadographies

The photographic series Nomadographies explores themes of how humans relate to each other and to the environment, where questions concerning home, travel and cartography take on political significance.

Mary Mattingly (b. 1978) is an American visual artist living and working in New York. Her work has been shown widely internationally including exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, The International Center of Photography, New York, and the New York Public Library. She is perhaps best well known for her work Wearable Homes, that she began to work on in 2001 where she integrates photography with aspects of sculpture and performance. The Wearable Homes are built as workable sculptures with utility and survival purposes in mind and are tested in different desert environments where the photographs are produced.

“I began the series Nomadographies by doing research, drawing sketches, and by imagining a possible scenario. The story evolved into a series of ad hoc and adaptive low and hi-tech solutions for the circumstances of nomadic life, goals of self-sufficiency, and depictions of a not-so-distant future when the amount of forced environmental and political refugees has increased worldwide, and new temporary communities are continuously created and recreated. I began to document this scenario and life as it changed and evolved many times through this process, sometimes I would travel alone, and other times with groups. Nomadographies is a pilgrimage through real and imagined terrains, a travelogue for the future.” Mary Mattingly

The exhibition is shown courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery

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