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Emma Wilcox, Eminent Domain No. 5, silver gelatin print, 20 x 24, 2006
Emma Wilcox
Salvage Rights
Listen: Emma Wilcox interview on WNPR's Where We Live, Wednesday, April 29
"For several years I have been writing texts, in 12-foot high letters, on rooftops and vacant lots throughout Newark, NJ, and photographing them via helicopter. Initially, this was a solitary act, inspired by the conceptual function of eminent domain as instant blight, as well as by the widespread, false assumption by many Internet users that Google Earth functions in real time. I began with my own house, which
I was about to lose.
"With "Salvage Rights", I am interested in the chemical and textual memory of a landscape and the multiple, sometimes contradictory significances of place. In forensics, the absence of something can signify its presence, and scale is subject to continual reexamination." - Emma Wilcox
About the Artist
Emma Wilcox is a photographer, writer and cofounder of Gallery Aferro, a Newark, NJ alternative space. She is the recipient of a 2007 NJSCA Fellowship for photography, and will be in residence at the Newark Museum in 2009. Selected as a Core Participant for Night School at the New Museum in 2008, she will be part of AIM at the Bronx Museum for 2009. Her photographic work is an ongoing documentation of a dense and contested urban landscape. All images are taken within a 5 mile radius of Newark, NJ, either on foot or via helicopter. Utilizing multiple texts- EPA documents, news archives, stories told- the work is concerned with (among other things) eminent domain abuse, environmental justice, geologic time, and local memory.
Support
This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of our Members, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alexander A. Goldfarb Memorial Trust, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.