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Andrea Robbins and Max Becher to exhibit with SCAD photography professor Zig Jackson at Red Gallery
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9/7/2007   “(Dis)placed Identity” focuses on the artists’ shared interest in the representation of Native American identity in contemporary culture.Jackson, raised on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, is of Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara descent. As a native artist in contemporary America, Jackson’s photography deconstructs myths and misconceptions about Native Americans while exploring contemporary issues. “The subject of legend and popular fantasy, [the native American] is commonly viewed as an ageless anachronism forever frozen in the past, as exemplified by tired and hackneyed characterizations such as the ‘Noble Savage,’ the stoic and ruthless warrior, the nubile, buckskin-clad maiden, the all-knowing shaman and spiritual guru, etc.,” Jackson said in his artist statement. “Even today, after centuries of coexistence, the real Indian remains an elusive paradox to the majority of non-native society.” Andrea Robbins and Max Becher’s work focuses on the transportation of place – or situations where one isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. In “(Dis)placed Identity,” the photographs exhibit tourists in Germany dressed as Native Americans attending outdoor festivals and meeting in loosely formed groups, called tribes. Robbins and Becher’s photographs explore the idea that postwar Germans, who were once discouraged from nationalism and group ritual, may sense a permission to find themselves in other ethnic groups. The husband and wife duo will speak at the Trustees Theater, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.scad.edu/exhibitions. Images: Andrea Robbins, Max Becher, Three Men from the series German Indians, Chromogenic prints, 30x25 ¾ in., 1997-98 Zig Jackson, Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian, Camera in Face, Taos, New Mexico, gelatin silver print, 16x20 in., 2004.
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