Brynne Quinlan is a California-born photographer who is currently based in Somerville, MA after many years considering herself untethered. Working primarily in 35mm film, she leverages photography to explore memory, self-identity, and concepts of place or home in a documentary-adjacent style.
Artist statement
I’m returning to an artistic practice after an eclectic professional and personal history, and much of it has been motivated and shaped by a transformative period that took place several years ago which made reconciling my past and present self an urgent undertaking. Much of the work presented here is a part of a project titled Odd Little Present, which examines memory and the creation of identity in the spirit of Edouard Leve’s Autoportrait while communicating a feeling of gentle restlessness and ambiguity. Leve’s book is one single paragraph of distinct statements about himself that paints an intimate yet detached portrait of the author, whose veracity and accuracy we must take at face value. Stitching together images produced between 2008 and 2017, a period of personal unrest, with those made in the last year, much as Leve does with his declarative sentences, I’m wrestling with the notion of self-continuity as I contend with the person I was then with who I am now.
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