4/8: OTHER PEOPLE’S CLOTHES // new works by CALEB COLE

The Last Page, 2008, Archival Inkjet Print

OTHER PEOPLE’S CLOTHES
Caleb Cole photographs himself in Other People’s Clothes. Each photograph in the series is a constructed scene that begins with an outfit or piece of clothing (either bought, found, or borrowed), then a person imagined to fill those clothes, and finally a location where that person can play out a silent moment alone.  Stepping into the shoes, literally, of invented people, he takes on the personality of an individual in a transitional moment, a moment that highlights how human expectations and desires are often at odds with the reality of one’s life. Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe explains that “the artist himself becomes an expression of his character’s inner sadness or shame, and the accouterments of clothing and place heighten the sense of not quite belonging, and at the same time, being entrenched.”  Cole will exhibit prints from the span of the project, from 2007 to present.