Mercedes Dorame
I Will Flow from Earth—Paviinone ‘Ooxve2021

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 2

No image

Artist or Maker: Mercedes Dorame
United States, Los Angeles, born 1980
Title: I Will Flow from Earth—Paviinone ‘Ooxve
Date Made: 2021
Medium: Inkjet print
Dimensions: Primary support: 43 15/16 × 44 in. (111.6 × 111.76 cm) Image: 36 × 36 in. (91.44 × 91.44 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by LENS: Photography Council, 2022
Accession Number: M.2023.43.3
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: Mercedes Dorame uses photography to explore, reimagine, and connect to her Gabrielino-Tongva heritage. She has stated, “I am interested in the problematics of living in a place that once belonged to my ancestors, a place I feel connected to, yet have limited access to.” In the series Everywhere Is West, she explores the Channel Islands, part of Tongva ancestral lands, uncovering elements in nature that are culturally significant and speak to the interconnectivity of living beings. This photograph of a black swirl of water (a tidepool) abstracts water’s life force and resembles a constellation of stars, alluding to Indigenous origin stories. (For other images in the Everywhere Is West series, see M.2023.43.1 and .2.)

Eve Schillo

2024

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 2

No image

Artist or Maker: Mercedes Dorame
United States, Los Angeles, born 1980
Title: I Will Flow from Earth—Paviinone ‘Ooxve
Date Made: 2021
Medium: Inkjet print
Dimensions: Primary support: 43 15/16 × 44 in. (111.6 × 111.76 cm) Image: 36 × 36 in. (91.44 × 91.44 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by LENS: Photography Council, 2022
Accession Number: M.2023.43.3
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: Mercedes Dorame uses photography to explore, reimagine, and connect to her Gabrielino-Tongva heritage. She has stated, “I am interested in the problematics of living in a place that once belonged to my ancestors, a place I feel connected to, yet have limited access to.” In the series Everywhere Is West, she explores the Channel Islands, part of Tongva ancestral lands, uncovering elements in nature that are culturally significant and speak to the interconnectivity of living beings. This photograph of a black swirl of water (a tidepool) abstracts water’s life force and resembles a constellation of stars, alluding to Indigenous origin stories. (For other images in the Everywhere Is West series, see M.2023.43.1 and .2.)

Eve Schillo

2024