Cultural Critique

Cultural Critique: Touching Strangers I chose to attend Richard Renaldi’s exhibit, Touching Strangers, for my cultural critique. I attended this exhibit on March 31, 2016 and it was located in the Foosaner Art Museum in Melbourne, Florida. This exhibit consisted of pictures taken of individuals with no interactions between the two or three of them prior to the photograph being taken (Gallery Guide, 2016). What was most interesting about this exhibit that attracted me to it was the name of it. I was curious as to why it was titled the way that it was. Richard Renaldi is the photographer whose art is showcased in this exhibit. Renaldi has a bachelor’s of fine arts in photography from New York University (Gallery Guide, 2016). His goal is to “break down unnecessary barriers [in our culture],” (Gallery Guide, 2016). His theme of this exhibition is to have many diversities in the images and show the people interacting as if they had known each other for a long time. The people in most of his photographs appeared to have very personal relationships such as family or friends, this was expressed through their poses and body expressions. The photographs were distributed in a very open area in various sizes. His larger pictures on display were more …show more content…
The whole picture creates an uncomfortable vibe for me. The two do not look comfortable in this position or taking this photograph. They both have many awkward body gestures that prove that they are uncomfortable. Jeromy is standing up with an arm on Matthew’s shoulder. Matthew is sitting on a bench with is hands resting on his legs. Jeromy’s hand is clenched, his legs are in a strange position, and his face looks like he is worried and would like to leave. Matthew looks like he doesn’t know where to put his arms and his facial features look troubled and as if he would also like to leave. Also, the lights at the top of the photograph are too bright and look