"Photography has a unique capacity to take us right to humanity's extremes. Whether it's the outsiders photographed by Diane Arbus, the revelatory motion studies of the human body made by Eadweard Muybridge, views of remote Indigenous communities taken by the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, or in-your-face shots of heated competition from the sports photographer Walter Iooss, photographs can wow us with transformational dispatches from the fringes of the human condition."
"The results of Mickevicius's search include a photo of the NBA legends Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley facing off for a rebound, a portrait of a Muxe person known as Magnolia from the Zapotec city of Juchitan, Iranians disappeared by their own government, and basic parts of life such as ageing, death and pregnancy. On a purely visual level, Muscle Memory comes across as a true bounty, as eye-catching an array of photos as you'll see anywhere."
Muscle Memory at the Phoenix Art Museum assembles work by photographers including Diane Arbus, Eadweard Muybridge, Graciela Iturbide, Walter Iooss, and about three dozen more. The exhibition examines how human bodies can be central to awareness yet often ignored, portraying sites of pleasure and pain, strength and vulnerability. Images range from intense physical exertion and synchronized strobe motion studies to portraits of outsiders, remote Indigenous communities, ageing, death, pregnancy, and disappeared individuals. The show juxtaposes competitive sports, ritual and everyday life to reveal varied experiences of embodiment and the sensory, political, and emotional dimensions of being in a body.
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