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Abstract
In 1999, Sharon Lockhart traveled to the Amazon region of Brazil, where she shot a new 35mm film, entitled Teatro Amazonas. As Lockhart developed her concept for the film, she began to think about making a series of photographs in Brazil. She made the acquaintance of two Brazilian anthropologists and arranged to accompany them on two respective research trips, during which they would study segments of the Amazon region's population. One anthropologist, Ligia Simonian, intended to research the role of women in the rubber tapping industry in villages of the Rio Aripuanã region. The other, Isabel Soares de Souza, planned to study the bartering economy of the people of Apeú-Salvador, an island near the mouth of the Amazon in the state of Pará.
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Sharon Lockhart
Sharon Lockhart is an artist working in photography and film in Los Angeles. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Kunstmuseum Wolfburg, and the Kunsthalle Znrich co-organized a one-person exhibition of her work last year. The catalogue. Sharon Lockhart: Teatro Amazonas, with essays by Timothy Martin and Ivone Margulies, is available from NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, and Distributed Art Publishers, New York.