Thursday, November 16. 2006Photo Exhibit - National Transgender Day of Rememberence "trans//face," a new exhibition by photographer and activist An Xiao, explores the lives and words of survivors of anti-transgender violence and their allies. The show opens at Bluestockings Bookstore on the Lower East Side of New York on Nov. 21, in conjunction with the 8th Annual National Transgender Day of Remembrance."I began this project not because I wanted to," writes Xiao in her artistic statement, "but because I had to. I don't know a single transgender individual who hasn't faced at least some level of discrimination and violence, even at the hands of people who otherwise identify as liberal." In her portraits of transgender and queer New Yorkers in their daily environments, Xiao captures this sense of inhumanity and helplessness by blindfolding her subjects, who stare back at the viewer blankly as city life rushes by. Prose and poems written by participants accompany the photos in her installations. "I never know when it will happen or where," writes transgender activist and participant Monica B, "but at any moment I can be read [i.e., identified as transgender] by somebody and find myself in a fight for my life."
ABOUT THE SHOW "trans//face" opens on Nov. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Bluestockings Bookstore in Manhattan's Lower East Side and runs till Dec. 3. The show exhibits simultaneously online at dolari.org as part of Jenn Dolari's Webcomics Project. The National Transgender Day of Remembrance was started in 1999 in response to the murder of Rita Hester and falls on the 20th [sic] of each November. ABOUT AN XIAO An Xiao grounds her urban photography in the aesthetics of East Asia, particularly the Zen and haiku traditions. She enjoys capturing people in the beautiful moments of their daily lives and in experimental portraiture. An’s photos have been shown in magazines such as Publisher’s Weekly and EGO and have been hung in galleries and shows throughout the New York City area. via news release Trackbacks
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