DM Witman 개인전
M Gallery, CICA Museum
December 4 – 8, 2024
2024.12.4 – 12.8
Ecologies of Restoration
Ecologies of Restoration is an investigation and counter to loss and mourning, which has been so pervasive across the globe. I have engaged with various salts in several of its forms, colors, and chemical compositions. These are visual meditations created with hand-cultured salt crystals. Salt is an essential compound needed by humans to live, and yet too much can be fatal. Salt is ubiquitous. Historically, salt has been used in many ways—curing foods, medicine, baptism, embalming, warding off evil spirits, healing rituals, and as currency. Salt has a physical presence and, in forming various crystalline structures, provides a new metaphor for regeneration and resiliency, an essential facet to the climate predicament if humanity is to survive.
DM Witman is a trandisciplinary artist navigating the climate crisis employing photographic materials, video, and installation. DM is affiliated with photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe, NM and Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, Portland, Maine . Interviews and publications include Inside Climate News, The Guardian, BBC Culture, WIRED, Boston Globe, and Art New England. She actively exhibits her work and has been recognized with grants from the Maine Arts Commission, The Kindling Fund (a regrantor for the Warhol Foundation), The John Anson Kittredge Fund, and the Puffin Foundation. Her work has been collected by institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and is placed within many private collections. She splits her time between the Borderlands of South Texas and Midcoast Maine. She is currently Assistant Professor of Photography at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
