Hannah Whitaker at Marinaro
New York photographer Hannah Whitaker departs from her usual complex, multiple exposure images in recent straight photographs that employ grids and gradients to create what looks like a digital environment for a lone female character. Here, a shaft of light illuminates a sliver of her model’s otherwise dark body, suggesting that we’re seeing a fragment of what’s before us. Imagined as a sister to digital avatars like Siri or Alexa, Whitaker’s new figure questions who our AI characters are and why they’re designed as they are. (On view in Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood through Jan 24th. Masks and social distancing are required.) Hannah Whitaker, Orange Eye, Slit, UV printed onto MDF with hand painted edges, 21 x 15 inches, 2019.
