Alana Perino was born in 1988 and grew up in New York City, the North Fork of Long Island, and the stretch of highway between the two. Their work, which spans the genres of photography, sculpture, performance, and autofiction, is concerned with home, heritage, the nature of belonging, and perceptions of the self. Perino’s practice has been recognized and supported by institutions such as Aperture Foundation, Silver Eye Center of Photography, Lenscratch, Palm Studios, and Lensculture. Perino holds an MFA in Photography from RISD. They currently live in Rhode Island, where they are an assistant professor at Johnson & Wales University.
"In a Condition of No Light is an autofictional investigation into lineages of familial domesticity. The performances therein circumnavigate one family in one domestic environment, yet are in dialogue with repertoires learned and rehearsed within legacies of myth, literature, theater, film, music, and image; as well as through the otherwise untraceability of embodied memory and inherited trauma. The methodologies used are primarily photographic but also encompass practices reaching towards sculpture, installation, and performance. The line of questioning reserved for this inquiry is how a home, its objects, and inhabitants generate, spacialize, and embody the conditions of wealth, whiteness, and gender. At stake is the potential to fracture calcified molds, reenvision archetypes of enmeshment, and develop rituals of empathy across time, selves, and generations through the impossible practice of healing." From Perino's MFA thesis published here.
$460.006 of 12 Prints Left
$460.006 of 12 Prints Left
