Can I Grieve That Which Never Was?
Official website for artist Nicole Rademacher
Nicole Rademacher, Rademacher artist, Los Angeles, Chile, Barcelona, interdisciplinary, research-based, contemporary artist, conceptual artist, adoptee, adoptee voices, social practice artist, public practice artist, art therapy
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Can I Grieve That Which Never Was?

Can I Grieve That Which Never Was? consists of sixteen 5×7” photo-collages framed and seventeen 8×10” photo-collages organized in a photo album. The photos are of my childhood taken with my adoptive family. In each photograph, I cut out my image and replaced it with vellum. The photo album shows images that are placed on top of photos of my biological family from a similar time. The stand-alone images on the wall illustrate loss, while the images inside the album delve into my fantasies of what my life could have been like had I not been relinquished.

Year

2022

Media

C-prints of archival photos, vellum, and photo album

Dimensions

Sixteen 5 x 7” framed photo-collages and a 9 x 12” photo album. Installation dimensions

Category

2D