| The Disembodied
Spirit is an interdisciplinary exploration of modern and contemporary
art and culture involving the depiction or suggestion of ghosts. The exhibition
observed how artists have represented absence while indicating presence—using
formal elements such as transparency, light, shadows, weightlessness—and
how they manipulate, alter, and exaggerate these characteristics. It also
explored how the ghostly image may be, in part, a by-product of technological
advancements—photography, telegraphy, and the computer. Organized
by Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, the exhibition included
works by William Mumler, Julia Margaret Cameron, Jeremy Blake, Nancy Burson,
Anna Gaskell, Tracey Moffatt, Mariko Mori, and Bill Viola. |
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