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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 1em; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><strong><em>Transcultural Identities</em></strong>, an exhibition featuring photographic work by 6 internationally recognized artists, will be on view from <strong>February 17 through March 18<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Galleries at Georgia State University.</p>
<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 1em; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Exhibiting artists are: Chuy Benitez, Sylvia de Swaan Tatiana Fiodorova, Priya Kambli, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, and Wendy Phillips.</div>
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<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 1em; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Curated by Welch School Galleries Director Cynthia Farnell, <em>Transcultural Identities</em>addresses the effects of human migration, displacement and global commerce on the formation of collective and individual identities. The artists use lens-based images to explore multifaceted (and sometimes conflicting) identities within themselves and their communities. Farnell says:</p>
<p style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 1em; PADDING-TOP: 0px">“In a large part we form our perception of self through identification with our communities. Whether these relationships are familial, cultural, geographical, political or economic, atsome point we have all had the experience of reconciling our different selves with our diverse communities. The more we can empathize with this process in the lives of others, the more we will be able to create healthy and peaceful communities in our globalized world<em>. Transcultural Identities<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>is an exploration of this process through the common groundof the photographic image.”</p>
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