Become A Stranger In A Victorian-era World
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Del.icio.usIf you’ve ever felt out of place, HPU’s current exhibition, “The Visitor,” can help you relate.
In the show, which runs through Nov. 11, photographer Elizabeth R. Curtis provides insight into a misleading world of perception by taking pictures of willing visitors to the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Waimea Bay Beach Park and Honolulu Academy of Arts, posing them in formal Victorian-era tradition.
As a result, these poses create a contradictory relationship between the subjects’ clothing and the places they visit. A person’s appearance provides clues about individual and cultural identities which usually correspond to the current environment.
Curtis explained that eventually “the categories overlap, merge and fold over on themselves to create an image of a world in which we all traverse as mere or mighty visitors.”
The HPU art gallery is located at the Hawaii Loa campus in Kaneohe. Gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Saturday.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome.
For more information, call 544-0228.
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