Caput Mortuum

Caput Mortuum

Photographs by Jennifer Bockelman
Dates: 
Monday, July 31, 2017 to Friday, September 1, 2017

Jennifer Bockelman’s recent series of photographs come from an interest in themes of power as filtered through language, in particular, official governmental output such as tweets. Caput Mortuum, or literally “dead head,” refers to the worthless residue left after an alchemical transformation or to a worthless element. This exhibition reflects an attempt to pit magical thinking against its own logic, to transform lead into gold.