“On the Malecón” (2014) by Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick.
The exhibit “Trapped in Time,” featuring the photography of PDS photography teacher Eileen Hohmuth-Lemonick and George School photography teacher Danielle Picard-Sheehan, will be on view at the Anne Reid ’72 Art Gallery at Princeton Day School from Feb. 6 to March 5.
There will be an artists’ reception on Friday Feb. 6 from 4:30 to 6: 30 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.
Hohmuth-Lemonick and Picard-Sheehan traveled together to Cuba three times between 2012 and 2014. Both were drawn to the generosity, resourcefulness and passion of the Cuban people, as well as to the spaces they inhabit.
Although President Obama recently announced an opening of relations between the United States and Cuba, this exhibit must be contextualized in light of the fifty-year blockade between the two countries.
“Very little has changed in Cuba since 1959,” said Hohmuth-Lemonick. “It is a beautiful, friendly, multi-ethnic island, but most of the people are extremely poor. There are food and housing shortages. Outside of Havana people primarily rely on horses and bicycle taxis, and most cars in Havana were manufactured before 1960. Breakdowns are common. People are desperate for commodities like soap and toothpaste. The average salary in 2014 was about $20 a month, according to the government. Now diplomatic relations between the two countries are being restored, I suspect that much is going to change, both for the good and for the bad. I dread the arrival of massive hotels, insensitive tourists and McDonalds.”
“Trapped in Time” is open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday when the school is in session, and by appointment on weekends.
More information is online at pds.org.
