Lorraine O'Grady

La Triennale

April 20–August 26, 2012

Lorraine O'Grady, Intense Proximity (2012)
Miscegenated Family Album (1980/1994)
Installation view, La Triennale

Miscegenated Family Album (Sibling Rivalry)
L: Nefertiti; R: Nefertiti's sister, Mutnedjmet (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Hero Worship),
L: Devonia, age 14; and Lorraine, age 3; R: Devonia, age 24; and Lorraine, age 13 (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters I),
L: Nefernefruaten Nefertiti; R: Devonia Evangeline O'Grady (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters II),
L: Nefertiti's daughter Merytaten; R: Devonia's daughter (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters III),
L: Nefertiti's daughter, Maketaten; R: Devonia's daughter, Kimberley (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Sisters IV),
L: Devonia's sister, Lorraine; R: Nefertiti's sister, Mutnedjmet (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Ceremonial Occasions I),
L: Devonia as Matron of Honor; R: Nefertiti performing a lustration (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Ceremonial Occasions II),
L: Devonia attending a wedding; R: Nefertiti performing an Aten ritual (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (A Mother's Kiss),
T: Candace and Devonia; B: Nefertiti and daughter (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 37h x 26w in (93.98h x 66.04w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Motherhood),
L: Nefertiti; R: Devonia reading to Candace and Edward, Jr. (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Young Princesses),
L: Nefertiti's daughter, Ankhesenpaaten; R: Devonia's daughter, Candace (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Worldly Princesses),
L: Nefertiti's daughter, Merytaten; R: Devonia's daughter, Kimberley (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Crowned Heads),
L: Nefertiti's husband, Akhenaten; R: Devonia's husband Edward (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Young Queens),
L: Nefertiti, age 24; R: Devonia, age 24 (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Progress of Queens),
L: Devonia, age 36; R: Nefertiti, age 36 (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Miscegenated Family Album (Cross Generational),
L: Nefertiti, the last image; R: Devonia's youngest daughter, Kimberley (1980/1994)
Cibachrome prints; 26h x 37w in (66.04h x 93.98w cm); Edition of 8 with 1 AP

Press Release

La Triennale
Le Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France

Lorraine O'Grady's photographic series, Miscegenated Family Album, exhibited at the 3rd edition of La Triennale, Intense Proximity curated by Okwui Enwezor.

Featuring over 130 contributors, Intense Proximity draws upon the fields of visual art, ethnography, anthropology, cinema, literature, music, and performance, and explores the connections between artistic practice and the writing of culture throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The exhibition takes as one of its points of departure the critical legacy of the first half of twentieth century ethnography and the continued fascination in contemporary art with exploring ethnographic poetics.