SHANNON TAGGART: “SPIRITUALISM”
Shannon Taggart’s photography focus on documentation of religious rituals and seems to arise from a kind of childish curiosity that leads her to investigate certain so-called paranormal phenomena. As in her research carried out at Lily Dale, the world largest Spiritualist community, that translate an almost visceral need to be part of it, to return this psychological space to reality, to capture its expressions, gestures and signs. The series presented here is part of her five-year project aimed to testify more than describe the modern Spiritualism as she tell us in words.
«My intention with this project is twofold. The pictures serve as a documentation of the tradition and an illustration of what it means to be a Spiritualist. It is my hope to also address certain themes. The images are meant as meditations on faith, mortality and the alchemy of religious ritual. They are an attempt to examine how the individual experiences the spiritual uniquely. Finally, they are an effort to manifest the unseen, to pose the question: What if?»