Artist Talk: Paolo Morales
Building: Academic Building
Room Number: Large Auditorium & Online
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2022
Time: 04:30 pm End Time: 05:30 pm
Event Category: Community and Arts
Division Host: Communication, Arts & Humanities
Paolo Morales, Pool Party, 2020, archival inkjet print, 22 x17 inches. Courtesy the artist.
FREE Admission | Open to the Public | Registration Required
Offered in-person and through Zoom
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Philadelphia-based photographer Paolo Morales’s sensitive portraits of his family and friends invite viewers to contemplate the importance of human connection against the backdrop of the major sociological shifts of the last decade. Across three series of photographs that incorporate both documentary and vernacular aesthetics, Morales examines the conditions of the pandemic, gentrification, the challenges of elder care, and the ongoing legacy of racial inequity in the United States. The exhibition contributes to programming surrounding Delaware County Community College’s 2021-2022 College-wide Reading selection, Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming (Puffin Books 2014), a poetic memoir of Woodson’s childhood. Similar to Woodson’s use of autobiography to consider the legacy of the Civil Rights milestones of the 1960s and 1970s, Morales’s photographs build empathy between viewers and his subjects as a means to interrogate the most pressing concerns of the early twenty-first century. Learn More »
This event is sponsored by the Communication, Arts & Humanities Division.