Backwards View – Reception @ Gallery Aferro

April 28 – May 26, 2017
Opening Reception Friday April 28, 5-9 PM

Emma Wilcox
Curated by Evonne M. Davis

The work here isn’t new, consisting of images made from roughly 2002 – 2012. It hasn’t been much exhibited in Newark, which it depicts primarily though not exclusively. A “backwards view” has various meanings; either a retrograde, uninformed opinion, or accessing what is past, either visually or intellectually. It feels appropriate given events both local and national to consider what it is to remember, and to retain a record, whether visual, textual, or otherwise. What do you remember that has disappeared from view?