Letticia Cosbert Miller

Swimming Up a Dark Tunnel (2022)

Swimming up a Dark Tunnel features essays by writer and curator Letticia Cosbert Miller published through the 2020/21 Writer-in-Residence program at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography.⁠
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Each year, Gallery 44 invites a writer to explore concepts related to photography and image-culture as understood through their own research interests. Cosbert Miller explores the subject of water to draw in many of her interests, including Classics, and the writings of Dionne Brand and Toni Morrison to name just a few. ⁠
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The essays explore water as a historical and political site. Public pools, swimwear, migration across water that is forced, willing and unwilling. The beach is an intersection for bikini clad vacationers and displaced refugees. The sea is a boundary or portal where Poseidon dwells in the depths, along with the victims of the Middle Passage. Cosbert Miller brings all these intersections together and threads personal experience as well as pop culture references throughout all four essays.⁠
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Also included in the publication is a conversation commissioned by Gallery 44, between curator Heather Rigg and Letticia Cosbert Miller about the residency experience and her choice of subject matter. The interview explores a wide range of topics, including working in the art world and the necessity of art criticism. ⁠

Writer Letticia Cosbert Miller
‍Price $22.00
‍Date 2022
‍Publisher Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
‍Design Mark Bennett
‍Printer Andora Graphics
‍Size 5 x 7 Inch
‍Length 94 pp

⁠Purchase from: Gallery 44 | Art Metropole | Printed Matter, Inc. | Critical Distance

Photo Documentation by Darren Rigo, courtesy Gallery 44