Alyssa Salomon, adjunct faculty in Photography & Film and in the VCU Center for Creative Entrepreneurship, is part of an exhibition at the Valentine that’s all about chickens.
This exhibition examines the resurging practice of keeping backyard chickens and how our relationship with food sources continues to evolve. A Chicken in Every Plot includes portraits of Richmond-area urban and suburban chickens and the yards in which they thrive, an homage to the quintessential deviled egg, plus household objects and historic photographs from the Valentine collection.
A Chicken in Every Plot is the culmination of two years of collaboration between Richmond artist Alyssa C. Salomon and the Valentine to bring together art and artifact on the topic of backyard chickens. Since 2012, Salomon has used her camera and local word-of-mouth network to explore the city’s engagement with a national return to chicken-keeping. Extensive mining of the Valentine’s holdings highlight the continuous presence of chickens, real and symbolic, in everyday life. This exhibition offers opportunities to consider how Richmond thinks about its food and home.
A Chicken in Every Plot has been covered by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond Magazine and WCVE.
The exhibition will be on display at the Valentine through September 5, 2016. The show is curated by Meg Hughes, curator of archives at the museum.
Image and text courtesy of the Valentine Museum.
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