Between Now and Then
Between Then and Now features Angelina’s exploration into an evolving relationship with herself as an autonomous woman in the world away from home while responding to environmental and social conceptions of the newfound ‘Angelina.’
Between Then and Now offers audience members an opportunity to reflect on their impermanence and role in their social environment. How do we try to catch time and keep it? How can we cut the strings of mortality that mercilessly bind us? Should we? These leading questions propelled her forethought and research. Much into reflection, Angelina pursued finding her own relationship to these concepts. Is there an authentic ‘Angelina’ if the self is an everchanging being? How do I view the ‘Angelina’ of now? These questions served as the basis of her work, in which she developed her series to mirror such discoveries. In addition to her self-reflection, Angelina was largely inspired by the Dutch Golden Age, Buddhist philosophy, and photographer Francesca Woodman. She incorporated similar imagery and techniques from these sources to convey themes of ephemerality and mortality.
As this is Angelina’s first exclusive photographic series, her works contain portraits made by digital photography and cyanotype prints. She employed self-portraiture to serve as literal imagery for the reflections on the relationship between the younger self, the present self, and womanhood. Her inclusion of her peers’ portraits invites the audience to contemplate their relationship with themselves and their past.
