West Newsmagazine highlights Memory is a Verb in St. Louis

West Newsmagazine | Memory is a Verb Exhibition in St. Louis

Memory is a Verb: Exploring Time and Transience photography exhibition is on display now through Monday, October 2 at the Bonsack Gallery, John Burroughs School, 755 S. Price Road in St. Louis.

The Bonsack Gallery opens a group photography exhibition on Friday, August 25, with a public reception held from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The show is on view until Monday, October 2. Memory is a Verb unites the work of 11 women photographers exploring notions of time and transience. Memory — although often considered static — is changeable and built upon individuals’ perceptions. New insights continuously illuminate prior experiences, influencing our understanding of the present moment. Likewise, the present slips into the past at the instant we seek to define it.

Images in the exhibition of family, friends, and spaces — both familiar and unfamiliar — reflect the artists’ deeply personal meditations on change, loss, mortality, and legacy. Some photographers reckon with the passage of time by returning to the same subject over days, months, or years. Others alter images through multiple exposures or chemical interventions, exploring the vulnerability of photographs and the memories attached to them. Capitalizing upon the camera’s ability to fix a moment in time, these artists highlight the centrality of photographs to our understanding of the past and present.

Memory is a Verb is curated by Molly Moog (John Burroughs School, Class of 2008) and features the work of Elizabeth Bailey, Annette LeMay Burke, Dena Eber, Sarah Hadley, Diane Hemingway, Susan Lapides, Jennifer Pritchard, Annie Omens, Lori Ordover, Rosalie Rosenthal (John Burroughs School, Class of 1985), and Aline Smithson.