Fri 6 Nov 2009
Sticks, Stones & Bones/Images from Transient Landscapes: Photographs by A. E. Fournet
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“Sticks, Stones & Bones/Images from Transient Landscapes” an exhibition of 30 multi-toned, silver gelatin photographs by Annette E. Fournet, will be featured in the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center Gallery November 30 – December 18, 2009. Ms. Fournet will present a public lecture about her experiences photographing in Central and Eastern Europe on Thursday, December 3 at 5:00 pm in Room 213 of the Fine Arts Center. A reception will follow in the gallery.
Fournet, who now lives in Memphis, began photographing Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, just as it was undergoing vast changes after “The Velvet Revolution.” Her photographs document that cultural transition and the sense of nostalgia and regret for the things – both good and bad – that would eventually disappear under the onslaught of change.
Fournet is still making photographs in Central and Eastern Europe and describes her current work as an investigation of ‘wabi-sabi’ in the landscape. The Japanese aesthetic of ‘wabi-sabi’ is defined as “…a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.” Her haunting photographs focus on the inconspicuous and overlooked details of everyday life. Fournet’s photographs have been exhibited in solo exhibitions throughout the United States, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.