Bruce Silverstein Gallery is very pleased to announce RITUAL, a single-artist exhibition by American photographer, Rosalind Solomon.
This exhibition, in celebration of the artist’s 80th birthday, takes place nearly 25 years after her pivotal Museum of Modern Art exhibition of the same title, curated by Peter Galassi. This show is a re-examination of the notion of ritual as a recurring and essential ‘subject’ in Solomon’s work, and features works created over the past four decades, including rare large-scale prints.
In Solomon’s work, the definition of a ritual, be that a cultural, religious, political, or ceremonial ritual, is called into question, and becomes easier and simultaneously more difficult to define when one considers Solomon’s images of human rites and ceremonies, parades and festivals, memorials and sacrifices. These images of cultural practices, both local and foreign, are united by the same impassioned witness, presented equally and without bias as Solomon searches for a personal understanding and reflection of her own human experience.