Laurel Nakadate | 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears

Museum of Art Museum of Art

Exhibition: Laurel Nakadate | 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears

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Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery
This exhibition features a selection of thirty-one photographs representing the month of August by the American photographer and filmmaker Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) from her acclaimed series "365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears."

Selected Works

 A photo of a woman sitting in a bed in front of yellow striped wallpaper
August 2, 2010 from the series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, 2011, chromogenic print by Laurel Nakadate.
a photograph of a woman's face in half profile in a darkened room in front of a window
August 21, 2010 from the series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, 2011, chromogenic print by Laurel Nakadate.
a photograph of a woman's face in profile on the left and a reflection of her in a mirror
August 26, 2010 from the series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, 2011, chromogenic print by Laurel Nakadate.
A profile of a woman's face in a darkened room with a lamp behind her
August 30, 2010 from the series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, 2011, chromogenic print by Laurel Nakadate.

About

This exhibition features a selection of thirty-one photographs representing the month of August by the American photographer and filmmaker Laurel Nakadate (born 1975) from her acclaimed series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears. In this 2011 durational performance, the artist photographed herself crying each day for a year, desirous of “deliberately take part in sadness the way people deliberately take part in happiness.”

The exhibited photographs are chromogenic prints are from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, a generous gift of Tony Podesta of Washington, D.C