Galerie Mourlot is pleased to
announce its first solo exhibition of new photographs by Camilla Douraghy.
Camilla Douraghy’s series of
black & white photographs strips away conventional indicators of wealth and
social status to depict the pure form of the nude. She forgoes the use
of color to better focus on tones and textures of her subjects.
People stripped of their
clothes no longer have the symbols of power, wealth, style or lack thereof that
defines who they are and the times they live in. Are they fashionable? Are they
conservative? Are they trying to impress? When all of this is stripped away,
what is left is the pure form. The nude portrait is not so much a portrait of
the individual, but rather they become archetypes for the lover, the warrior,
the virgin or the temptress.
Camilla
Douraghy was born in Iran
to an American mother and Iranian father. Because of the political unrest in
her home country and the war with Iraq,
she left Iran
when she was ten. She moved to Switzerland
and later went to high school in Germany. Upon graduation she went
to America
and studied Classics and Religion at Wheaton College MA. She then went on to
graduate school in England
and received an M. Phil from Oxford
University in Modern
Middle Eastern studies. It was at college that she first studied photography,
and it is a passion that has followed her ever since. She has lived and
traveled extensively throughout South East Asia and Japan,
and now lives in Switzerland
with her husband and three children. Camilla Douraghy has had solo exhibitions
in Tokyo and Hong Kong, this is her first solo
show in America.
The exhibition will continue
through April 3, 2011.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, March 17, 2011
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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