Object number2020.9.1.30
April 30
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears
Date2011
Artist
Laurel Nakadate
(American, born 1975)
CultureAmerican
MediumChromogenic print
EditionEdition 1 of 2
DimensionsFramed: 40 × 50 × 1/2 in. (101.6 × 127 × 1.3 cm)
Credit LineGift from the Podesta Collection, Washington, DC, in honor of the class of 2020
On View
Not on viewPeriod21st c
Classification(s)
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryLaurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, January 23 - August 15, 2011Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta, American University Museum, Washington, D.C., September 3 - December 14, 2011
Label TextEach morning throughout 2010, Laurel Nakadate photographed herself crying. This convulsive archive of 365 images—shot alone in her apartment, hotels, and commercial airliners—stages grief as disciplined practice. The ritual unfolds through ambient household light, a shutter release, and the obligation to continue, day after day, whether tears arrived from genuine sorrow or performative necessity. These April entries shift subtly in posture and emotional register, while resisting narrative explanation, each image both a discrete emotional event and insistent study.
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