KIJA LUCAS: HIDDEN HISTORIES

Kija Lucas uses photography to explore home, heritage, and memory. Through the seemingly neutral lens of scientific photography, Lucas emphasizes the beauty of her botanical subjects to speak to the embedded layers of history and meaning that impact our understanding of society. View the exhibition in augmented reality by Black Terminus.

PHOTOGRAPHY & THE SPECIMEN

Inspired by Kija Lucas’s use of botanical specimens to reveal hidden histories, this selection of photographs from the Mills College Art Museum’s collection explores various modes of the photographic specimen and their operations as forms of knowledge.