Cipher is a series of large scale color photographs that examine the ambiguity of memory and the visceral effects of hidden trauma. Imbued with both the immediacy of crisis and the memory of myth, Sarah Mangialardo’s photographs call into question issues surrounding subjectivity and interpretation. The images feature landscapes punctuated with shifting forms, childlike figures that gesture towards intangible spaces and bleed into their surroundings. These characters play out an uneasy narrative based around the traditions of allegory and myth.
Biography
Having graduated from Ryerson University with a Bachelor’s degree in photography, Sarah Mangialardo is now in the process of completing her Master of Fine Arts at Concordia University. Throughout her career as a visual artist, Mangialardo has had the privilege of exhibiting both in Canada and the United States, as well as being featured in publications internationally, including the Magenta Foundation’s seminal overview of contemporary Canadian photographers, Carte Blanche, and the United Kingdom’s photography based art magazine, Next Level. She currently lives and works in Montréal, Québec.
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