Author: Her, Pao Houa'The Imaginative Landscape' traces Pao Houa Her’s ever-deepening exploration into concepts of home and belonging. With essays and an artist interview, this catalogue explores Her’s work in genres of portraiture, landscape, still life and the vernacular, as she photographs herself and the people and places around her through the tinted lens of diasporic longing. Rooted in the experience of her Hmong community and shaped by family lore passed down by her elders, Her investigates the potential of photography to create nonlinear narratives exploring construction. She brings together formal, vernacular photographic languages manipulated into light boxes, wheat-pasted images and videos. Her’s adoptive homes of Minnesota and California become stand-ins for Laos; plastic florals replace living tropics; ersatz and real meld together. ISBN 9781941753835. Inventory Press. pb. 124 pages. 80 colour ills. 24.2 x 19.7 cm.available
