Small Town Girl – Australia, South Africa and the USA
Elize Strydom
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Free
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Official Opening
14/05/2015 6:00 pm
This exhibition is a collection of candids and portraits exploring the daily lives of teenage girls in small towns across Australia, South Africa and the USA. It’s been more than a decade since I was a teenager growing up in regional Australia and yet I still feel such a strong connection to that stage of life.
Now a fully-fledged city dweller with a demanding job and all of the responsibilities that come with being a ‘grown-up’, I realise how unique those years in between childhood and adulthood actually were; a home surrounded by space and silence, a mind alive with possibilities, and emotions so completely raw.
Small Town Girl is a visual journey of remembering and discovery. As I walk alongside teenagers in Australia (where I grew up), South Africa (where I was supposed to grow up) and the USA (where I wanted to grow up), my own memories of adolescence are both validated and challenged. I’m fascinated by ordinary young women growing up in out of the way places. I want to know who they are and share in their experiences and I want to capture them in an intimate and poetic way.
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