STACY KRANITZ
2015-01-26Kranitz’s work seeks to assert a distinct continuity between violence and catharsis. She is specifically concerned with defining a validatory purpose for violent acts. By connecting the antisocial to the related emotional release, she clarifies such behavior as not only human, but necessary. Kranitz takes on the unruliness of humanity, and submits it to order.
Her photography shows both a fascination and ease for the intensity and apparent risk in such situations—something Kranitz relates to a childhood marked by bouts of domestic violence. She immerses herself in the work and explains that the images are best described “not as documentation but rather as an exploration of the ethical boundaries of representation and the subversion of the photographer’s ‘role.’ I willingly cross these boundaries to insert myself into the experience,” she explains. This immersion yields images that illustrate blood soaked young men with broken noses and flayed skin, all snorting, puffing, pushing and pulling. While youth and rage are hardly indifferent bedfellows, Kranitz seeks to assert that aggression and the onset to adulthood are a potent—and logical—human mix. The results are photographs that emit the adrenalin and dysfunction of the moments captured.
Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2015
Little big man gallery
801 Mateo
Los Angeles
CA 90021
