ROM and CONTACT bring Tattoos to the Streets

In celebration of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival’s 20^th anniversary, the Royal Ontario Museum is pleased to host an outdoor public art installation of photographs from Jake Verzoza’s The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga series.

WHAT:        The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga, a series of portraits by Manila-based photographer Jake Verzosa, laments and celebrates a dying tradition of tattooing in villages throughout the Cordillera Mountains in the northern Philippines.         Reminiscent of Verzosa’s previous installation of these works, 10 larger-than-life portraits are framed by bamboo—a material customarily used to etch ink into skin—and presented outdoors, bordering the ROM’s historic façade. The installation is curated by Bonnie Rubenstein and presented in partnership with the Royal Ontario Museum, in conjunction with the exhibition Tattoos: Ritual. Identity. Obsession. Art., on now until September 5, 2016. For exhibition information and tickets visit www.rom.on.ca/tattoos.

For the month of May, promotional partner Holt Renfrew will feature four additional images from this series in their storefront windows at 50 Bloor Street West.

WHERE:      Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto

WHEN:        April 27 – September 2, 2016

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