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Rana Young
On Edge, 2019/2021
Archival pigment print, 16 x 12 inches
Edition 2/7, signed, verso
Unframed
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $500
From my ongoing project "Lie and Smile," a photographic series responding to my mother’s archive and absence, through which I construct prosthetic memories to reinterpret her life and embalm her death. Since 2017, I’ve been investigating the lived experiences that lead to parental abandonment, incarceration, and her persistence to conceal years of endured trauma. Familial narratives aid in rendering a visual elegy, and versions of my mother to confront or forgive, while I sustain negotiating with her ghost.
About the Artist:
Rana Young
Rana Young is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Rana holds an MFA in studio art from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she was an Othmer Fellow, and a BFA in studio art from Portland State University, OR. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as published online by Hyperallergic, VICE, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, British Journal of Photography, and The New York Times. Kris Graves Projects (Queens, NY) published her first monograph, The Rug’s Topography, in 2019.
Website: ranayoung.com
Instagram: @rana.young
