The Medicine Show – Spiraling through Guilford County Communities – February 25 – March 12
Art Truck at various locations in Guilford County (see GPS website for details) – Feb 25 – March 4, 2022
Greensboro Project Space Feb 28 – March 12, 2022
Reception: March 3, 6:00pm – 8:00pm at GPS

For the duration of the project the Art Truck will be converted into a mobile alternative photo lab, documenting Guilford County communities for a week. The aim of the project is to document the county as a conglomerate of distinct historically manufactured places, focusing on the typical rather than the spectacular, thus attempting a timeless truth. The project relates back through history, emulating the nineteenth century spectacle of  the medicine show, where a quack medicine salesman would come to town, often with jazz musicians and dancers, to create a local spectacle in the town square. It is in this context that the project uses then pictorialist cyanotype process, which was popular in the late nineteenth century, creating magical images by exposing synthesized paper to sunlight.

For more about the artist – Hlynur Helgason and where to catch the Art Truck visit: Greensboro Project Space.