High Water

EM WHITE
March 5 – April 24, 2021

Candela Gallery is thrilled to present High Water, a debut solo exhibition by Richmond, Virginia based photographer, Emily White. In response to our modern world, inundated by digital diversions and perpetual tail-chasing, Emily White has staked out essential and reverent landscapes. White approaches the landscape genre using a mix of 19th century and contemporary processes and manages to bridge the nostalgia for a familiar place and the discordant emotions of the southern wilds. 

While exploring process and genre, much of the resonance in White’s serene and mantic images, a mix of tintypes and darkroom prints, is tethered to White’s overflowing feelings of home, of her southern roots, and her search for refined stillness in a chaotic world. Weaving together several distinct bodies, High Water’s textural studies of thick water, overgrown greenery, and enveloping canopies of elongated trees thread a universal narrative that reminds us again, despite all of our protests, that nature is going to have the last word.  

”But I longed to always stay attached to my home, to my family. That's the golden thread that keeps me tied to eternity.” - Dolly Parton

High Water will be on display in person and online at Candela Gallery, from March 5 - April 24, 2021. 
Featured works will also be included in a printed catalog published by Candela Books.