The prize features a $10,000 artist grant, alongside the publication of a photobook with Aperture, and accompanying exhibition at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York.
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The Art Institute of Chicago presents Mimi Cherono Ng ok: Closer to the Earth, Closer to My Own Body on view June 18, 2021 through February 7, 2022.
For more than a decade, Mimi Cherono Ng ok has worked to understand how natural environments, botanical cultures, and human subjects coexist and evolve together. Working with an analog camera, she travels extensively across the tropical climates of the Global South constructing a visual archive of images that document her daily experiences and aid her in processing emotions and memories.
For this solo museum exhibition in the United States, Cherono Ng ok presents photographs and a film made across Africa, the Caribbean, and South America, all as part of an ongoing inquiry into the rich and diverse botanical cultures of the tropics. She tracked flowers and floral imagery across varied contexts-enshrouding the exterior of homes, emblazoned on bedspreads, encountered in nighttime flower markets-and a range of hidden associations. Some o
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