Odette England
Through photography, image archives, and text, Odette England explores home, autobiography, female labor, and ritual. Her work has been exhibited in more than 100 museums, galleries, and art spaces worldwide. Recent photobooks include Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph; Dairy Character, winner of the 2021 Light Work Book Award; and Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg, her collaboration with Jennifer Garza-Cuen. England’s latest project Your Distance Makes Me Close to You, for which she will use the awarded film, involves traveling across America to make photographs of the sinewy relationship between homesickness and beauty. Documenting the process of finding “home” in being away. Probing the mysteries and pleasures of what is—and what becomes—dear and important to us.
