Hannah Nigro, "#1"
Photography, Inkjet Print, 2022, $200
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BIO
Hannah Nigro (b. 1997, Minnesota) is an image-based artist, dedicating her practice to chipping away at anthropocentrism. She is based in the Northeast United States, primarily splitting time between the ancestral lands of the Narragansett, Wampanoag and the Haudenosaunee peoples. Seeking to encourage the viewer to consider a larger scope of temporality beyond the anthropocene, she hopes to reveal the magical uncanniness of macro geological shifts that have enabled human micro existences. A fascination with the fossilisation of lived experiences over deep time grounds her art making. She is a current candidate for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design.
STATEMENT
This selection of images comes from an in process body of work concerning the creation of reservoirs in the Catskills region of upstate New York. Beneath the waters of the Neversink Reservoir live the ghosts of two hamlets : Bittersweet and Neversink, from which the reservoir was named after. The two hamlets were evacuated and flooded, plummeting the infrastructure below the surface. This story is not unique to the area, as many other populations were uprooted during the construction of the 19 reservoirs that would go on to feed the southerly metropolis. Through this series I am continually exploring themes of extraction, erasure, and the binary relationship of destruction and creation. Considering the histories of the lost towns as continuing to breath beneath the reservoir waters, I use the camera as a means to access that subaqueous world.
Photography, Inkjet Print, 2022, $200
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Hannah Nigro (b. 1997, Minnesota) is an image-based artist, dedicating her practice to chipping away at anthropocentrism. She is based in the Northeast United States, primarily splitting time between the ancestral lands of the Narragansett, Wampanoag and the Haudenosaunee peoples. Seeking to encourage the viewer to consider a larger scope of temporality beyond the anthropocene, she hopes to reveal the magical uncanniness of macro geological shifts that have enabled human micro existences. A fascination with the fossilisation of lived experiences over deep time grounds her art making. She is a current candidate for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design.
STATEMENT
This selection of images comes from an in process body of work concerning the creation of reservoirs in the Catskills region of upstate New York. Beneath the waters of the Neversink Reservoir live the ghosts of two hamlets : Bittersweet and Neversink, from which the reservoir was named after. The two hamlets were evacuated and flooded, plummeting the infrastructure below the surface. This story is not unique to the area, as many other populations were uprooted during the construction of the 19 reservoirs that would go on to feed the southerly metropolis. Through this series I am continually exploring themes of extraction, erasure, and the binary relationship of destruction and creation. Considering the histories of the lost towns as continuing to breath beneath the reservoir waters, I use the camera as a means to access that subaqueous world.
Photography, Inkjet Print, 2022, $200
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Hannah Nigro (b. 1997, Minnesota) is an image-based artist, dedicating her practice to chipping away at anthropocentrism. She is based in the Northeast United States, primarily splitting time between the ancestral lands of the Narragansett, Wampanoag and the Haudenosaunee peoples. Seeking to encourage the viewer to consider a larger scope of temporality beyond the anthropocene, she hopes to reveal the magical uncanniness of macro geological shifts that have enabled human micro existences. A fascination with the fossilisation of lived experiences over deep time grounds her art making. She is a current candidate for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design.
STATEMENT
This selection of images comes from an in process body of work concerning the creation of reservoirs in the Catskills region of upstate New York. Beneath the waters of the Neversink Reservoir live the ghosts of two hamlets : Bittersweet and Neversink, from which the reservoir was named after. The two hamlets were evacuated and flooded, plummeting the infrastructure below the surface. This story is not unique to the area, as many other populations were uprooted during the construction of the 19 reservoirs that would go on to feed the southerly metropolis. Through this series I am continually exploring themes of extraction, erasure, and the binary relationship of destruction and creation. Considering the histories of the lost towns as continuing to breath beneath the reservoir waters, I use the camera as a means to access that subaqueous world.