Filter Photo is pleased to present An Inner Meaning; Almost Expressed, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Stephanie Taiber. Join us at Filter Space on June 19th for a closing reception with the artist.

In accordance with current health & safety guidelines, entrance to the gallery will be limited to no more than 8 patrons at a time & patrons will be required to wear a mask throughout the duration of their visit. We encourage all patrons to reserve a timed-entry slot to help us better accommodate the flow of people into the space: https://forms.gle/A3zbk2izwvQRYYGa9

The artist will be speaking about her work at 6:30 & 8:30 PM and the talks will be live-streamed if you can’t join us in person at the gallery.

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“I am interested in the shift between how a woman is seen and how she sees herself. This tension that arises between internal and external constructs of female identity is an undercurrent that continues to shape my work. My concern with the psychological realities associated with abuses of power, sexual assault, harassment, and/or daily forms of systemic silencing led me to begin research on Virginia Woolf’s life and writings. I have come to recognize, through repeated readings of her novel Mrs. Dalloway, a pervading silence that had come to define me.

An Inner Meaning; Almost Expressed tells the story of my process for finding voice later in life, referencing autobiographical moments of marginalization or hope, musings of worth, vulnerability and power, and rhythmic patterns of self-reflection. I experience natural oscillations of longing and withdrawal. Inside these essential moments, I am exploring the dynamic between ideas of intimacy and a perpetual distancing from myself. Here, where I feel both need and needed, I rely upon a veneer of vulnerability and conventionality as a purposeful appliqué in protecting my privacy. Sexuality and strength emerge only outside a framework of prescribed behaviors oftentimes designed to empower others.

The use of pink allows me to flow in and out of public and private female sensibilities and to connect a chronology of moments into a sequence dictated by impact. The color itself hinting at a presence, attaching and recoiling from an implied cast of others. I also look to the physics of waves, a motif in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, as a metaphorical foundation for my image-making. Waves ascribe to the patterning of emotional fluctuation and the perpetuity of endurance. I am constructing a rhythm, like waves, like breath for the act of being a woman.”

–Stephanie Taiber

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