Photos from the collection of Antonio Noberto Bezerra, interview location, survey of the Aripuana River region, Regatao Boat, Comandanta Bezerra, at Pastinho Community, Aripuana, Brazil, interview subject: Antonio Noberto Bezerra, interview subjects: Ana Lucia das Neves Pereira, Jose Guerra Acai Cardoso, anthropologist; Ligia Simonian 1999 (Group 11 - internal reference only), 1999
Image (a.): 9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)
Mat (b.): 27 × 32 in. (68.6 × 81.3 cm)
Image (b.): 17 7/8 × 22 7/8 in. (45.4 × 58.1 cm)
Mat (c.): 32 × 26 3/4 in. (81.3 × 67.9 cm)
Image (c.): 22 5/8 × 17 7/8 in. (57.5 × 45.4 cm)
(b). Appears to be a section of a flat boat. The section is open with rails on both sides. The room has some a chair and some stools. There appears to be a chimney from a stove in the middle of the room. There is a dog sleeping near the stove. The ceiling appears to have been decorated with material.
(c).The inside of a dark room. The wall to the left has a white banner at its top. The top of the banner has written in black letters "DAL DEP FEDERAL” Below that is the top part of some numbers. The back wall has a door that opens to a porch and then outside.
eMuseum Notes
Sharon Lockhart is a photographer and film maker whose work is informed by sociological study and performance. Often her works are presented in groups or sequences to explore subtile nuance of movement (dance, basketball) or presentation (portraiture). Noted for spending years of research into subject matter and collaboratig on production / posing and presentation. This triptych, from an edition of 3, is in the collection of the Walker Art Center, and is reproduced in the Taschen publication "Women Artist in the 20th and 21st Century." Another work from this series is in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago's collection.For this series of work she crated in Brazil while creating the work Teatro Amazonas. For this series she traveled up the Aripuana River region with an anthropologist. At the location of the anthropologist's interview sites the artist borrowed and copied the color image of the iterviewees from the interviewees and then worked with the family being interviewed by the anthropologist to photograph their home and represent it in a manner that reflected the occupants perspective rather than the anthropologist perspective.
