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12/4/2013

Tabitha Soren

Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of San Francisco based photographer Tabitha Soren's Running. In this series, archetypal figures struggle to escape or arrive - the viewer cannot be sure. Uncertainty, chaos and vulnerability infuse Soren's universe: elemental fears made visible.

The subjects'movement forces them out of their heads and strips them of control. A theater of the absurd unfolds as Soren describes our shared instinct to survive. Her figures stumble, grimace and lose composure. They are both wounded and heroic. The exhibition opens on Saturday, April 13th with a reception for the artist from 6:00pm to 8:00pm and continues through May 18th. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

"Soren's work speaks to the twists of fate in life that can unhinge us. Her pictures address what havoc human beings can survive - and what they can't." - Andy Adams "Flak Photo"

Telling her subjects little more than where to run, Soren forces her subjects into real moments of vulnerability and physical exhaustion, their movements providing subject and viewer alike with an opportunity for un-self-consciousness amid a general loss of control. In these snapshots of constructed artifice and uncontrollable motion, Soren depicts a moment in-flux leaving the viewer with something inconclusive and unresolved. Never revealing the motivation of the runner, or their pursuer, the narrative of these images appears to turn on what lies outside the frame. The entire series is characterized by cinematic tension and shared anxiety

"My work is about what people can survive and what they can't. It's about decay, how life can be reckless, and how you have to keep going. I explore how people can pick themselves up." - Tabitha Soren

Tabitha Soren was born into a US Air Force military family and grew up all over the world. She received a BA in Journalism and Politics at New York University and later studied photography at Stanford University and at California College of the Arts. Soren's images have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Blink Magazine, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, among others. Her work is included in Public collections like the Oakland Museum of Art, Cleveland's Transformer Station, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Indianapolis, the New Orleans Museum of Art as well as the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in Louisiana.

Opening saturday, April 13th with a reception for the artist from 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Kopeikin Gallery
2766 La Cienega Blvd (just north of Washington) - Los Angeles, California 90034
Our hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 - 5:00
Admission free

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