Sa démarche artistique / Her artistic statement

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Le travail de S. Rush explore les constructions américaines que sont les deux symboles mythiques et ordinaires de l'appartenance ou de l'exclusion, du départ et de l'arrivée, ainsi que l'érosion des certitudes et l'altération des idéaux. Les véhicules que nous utilisons en disent long sur ce que nous sommes, sur notre passé, mais aussi sur nos identités culturelles. Les photos exposées appartiennent à une série documentaire en cours, « Dream Car ». Elles ont été prises dans les rues de Seattle de 2010 à 2014. Cette série s'intéresse à ce qu'évoquent les voitures de fabrication américaine, pour la plupart datant des années 60 et 70, le lien qu'elles ont avec le mythe culturel de la mobilité, de l'autonomie et de la consommation, la marque du cool et le symbole de tous les possibles.

The vehicles in which we travel reflect ourselves, our past, as well as our cultural and personal identities. The photos in this exhibit are from on-going documentary series, Dream Car, of images captured on the streets of Seattle beginning in 2010. The mobile photo series explores feelings or memories that American-made cars of mostly the 60s and 70s evoke of the American past, their link to its cultural mythos of mobility, independence, self-reliance, consumption, ethos of cool, and the tropes of opportunity. A symbol of the 20th Century version of the American Dream, the car is a metaphor forged of imagination and steel, sculpted forms, the output of manufacturing lines and factories, physical labor and unions, of power, pride, and prosperity—the design of a dream. The juxtaposition of that design, as much a product of desire as Detroit, with today’s America is more difficult for me to grasp. Now, found here or there, suddenly, parked, at the corner of a street... these cars are transported to another America. I'm provoked by the juxtaposition of that scene. All photos captured and edited with iPhone between 2010-2014 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Sa biographie / Her biography

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Photographe, écrivain et professeur, S. Rush enseigne au Cornish College of Arts de Seattle. Son portfolio : Starrush.net. Ses photographies ont été exposées aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. Elles ont également été présentées dans les magazines en ligne Kwerfeldein, Actual Colors May Vary, Camerapixo, Dodho, Resource Magazine, The Wire et de Volkskrant. S. Rush étudie les rapports qu'entretiennent communautés, réseaux sociaux et images. Ses articles sur la photographie mobile connectée sont parus, entre autres, sur iPhoneography.com, wearegrryo. com (anciennement wearejuxt.com), dpConnect et iPhoneogenic.com.

"I am a Seattle-based photographer, writer, and educator. My photography has been exhibited in the United States, London, and Europe as well as presented in electronic magazines Kwerfeldein, Actual Colors May Vary, Askar Magazine, Camerapixo, Dodho, Resource Magazine, wire.it, and Volksrant. I write about the intersection of community, social networks, and image. My writing about connected mobile photography has appeared in iPhoneography.com, wearegrryo.com (formerly wearejuxt.com), dprConnect, and iPhoneogenic.com, among others. My work explores constructs of America as both mythical and mundane symbols of belonging or exclusion, leaving and arriving, erosion of certainties and corruptions of absolutes. How do images situate time as moments of simultaneity, of multiplicities of subjectivity that interrogate tropes of memory. I currently serve as Special Assistant for Teaching & Learning at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Wash., USA Photography portfolio: starrush.net."