Art Installations

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Johanna Inman and Anna Norton: Living Space

This series of five videos of time-lapse photographs featuring the subtle changes in light and weather that occur at Eastern State Penitentiary. The locations chosen for the videos represent areas and architectural features common to the site, each with distinctive characteristics created by the structure itself as well as the effects of time.

The videos, captured between fall 2007 and spring 2008, reveal aspects of the space that are often neglected or hidden from the naked eye. The compressed intervals of time in the work reveal a simultaneous process of both growth and decay. “It is these continual changes that give life and breath to this place,” says Anna Norton.

The artists have placed the videos inside of the cells to create an intimate and contemplative viewing. Johanna Inman says, “Ultimately the images show ESP as a dynamic, active and living space.”

Both Johanna Inman and Anna Norton received their M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art. Johanna Inman received her B.A. in art history and painting from Beaver College. Anna Norton received her B.A. in anthropology from Tulane University and attended the Maine Photographic Workshops Resident Program. Both artists teach photography and reside in Philadelphia.