Performing Tibetan identities
Subtitle: photographic portraits by Nyema Droma
By: Clare Harris and Nyema Droma
Contributors: Droma, Nyema
Publisher: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780902793583
Subjects: Tibetan National characteristics; Tibetans in art; Tibetan diaspora; Tibetans; Pictorial works; Ethnic identity
Description: Nyema Droma is a young Tibetan photographer and curator from Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People?s Republic of China. She developed her practice as a photographer at the London College of Fashion and has worked in both the UK and China. 0For 'Performing Tibetan Identities', Nyema photographed other young Tibetans, whether living in Europe as members of the Tibetan diaspora, or in Tibetan-speaking areas of China. Her pictures document the many things they share as global citizens and consumers of popular culture, as well as the particularities of their Tibetan heritage. By producing double portraits of each person, in daily wear and ?traditional? clothing, Nyema alludes to the fluidity of identity formation and how it may be expressed in dress and objects, revealing the range of options for self-fashioning that are available to contemporary Tibetans.00Exhibition: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK (13.10.2018-30.05.2019).
Notes: Exhibition held at Pitt Rivers Museum 13th October 2018-30th May 2019.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage for 'Performing Tibetan identities'; title: The context and the concept; title: The photographer and her subjects; title: The exhibition portraits; title: The archive.