Dark Waters
8th session at L'Appartement
The three artists featured in this 8th session of contemporary photography exhibitions at L'Appartement are :
➖ Christopher Anderson – “Family Trilogy”
➖ Jean-Marie Donat – “Christmas Nightmare”
➖ Kristine Potter – “Dark Waters”
OPENING: Wednesday 6th December 2023 at 6pm
Kristine Potter’s latest photobook, Dark Waters, focuses on the violence that permeates the territory and popular culture of the USA. She contrasts a series of portraits of women with scenery that appears serene but is in fact views of places with sordid names, such as Murder Creek, Bloody River, and Rape Pond, evoking the domestic violence that allegedly took place there in the past. Drawing on the musical genre of murder ballads from the 19th and 20th centuries, Kristine Potter alludes to the flippant popular glorification of violence towards women that still pervades today’s cultural landscape.
Kristine Potter, laureate of the Grand Prix Images Vevey, presents Dark Waters in Le Salon and Le Cinéma, evoking the domestic violence pervading the popular culture and landscape of southern USA.
Kristine Potter (born in Dallas, 1977) is an artist based in Nashville. She holds an MFA from Yale University and her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) and the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2019/2020). Potter is an assistant professor of photography at Middle Tennessee State University.
