WHO IS CHANGED AND WHO IS DEAD - SIGNED

In Who Is Changed and Who Is Dead, Ahndraya Parlato uses the events that changed the life of his mother's suicide and the birth of his children as the genesis of a vast project exploring the contradictory conditions and motherhood complexes. The resulting picture-text book connects the political and historical to the deeply personal, bringing together stories of all genres and generations to create a nuanced and compelling body of work. still lifes, sculptures, photograms made from ashes of his mother, reconstructions of 19th century "hidden mother" images and photographs of his children are interwoven with his own writings. In This complexity, Parlato strives to clarify the essential questions of parenthood, mortality and sex. Are my contemporary fears different from the fears felt by mothers throughout history? How are my Are anxieties specific to having girls? And how does motherhood affect Is she herself a construct? Ahndraya Parlato was born in Kailua, Hawaii. She has a BA in photography from Bard College and an MFA from California College of the Arts. His collaboration with Gregory Halpern, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, was published by Études Books in 2014, and her first monograph, A Spectacle and Nothing Strange was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2016. Recently, Parlato exhibited work at Transformer Station, Cleveland, PA, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA, The Aperture Foundation, New York, NY and The Swiss Institute, Milan, Italy. Parlato is the recipient of the 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts Joy of Photography Fellowship. In 2018, she was nominated for the ICP Infinity Award. In 2013, Parlato also was a recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as of a Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographer Award winner. She has also was awarded a Light Work Fellowship and was nominated for the Paul Huf Award from the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, as well as the SECCA Prize from the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.