Pia-Paulina Guilmoth
Flowers Drink the River
Flowers Drink the River spans the first two years of Guilmoth’s gender transition. The artist photographs her small community in rural Maine, and the beauty and terror of living as a trans woman in a small right-wing town. The project reveals a dreamscape where mud, earth and stone envelop all. Her images, filled with light aberrations and glowing specters, leave us suspended mid-ritual. This work is a love note to rural working-class people, trans women, lesbians, queer people, and the backwoods of Maine. Finding herself trying to reconcile her inner world with her outer landscape to achieve something close to harmony, Guilmoth uses photography to build a world she can escape to.
In collaboration with Rifugio Digitale, Pia-Paulina Guilmoth’s work will also be presented in an immersive installation at the exhibition space in via della Fornace 41, Florence.
