Solo show by Jake Shapiro

In 2004 Liz Sheffield, elected mayor of Angeline, Washington (a city 10 miles north of Seattle) put in place a recurring lottery every 5 years that relocated each neighborhood.  In advance of every relocation, city officials would use two bingo cages, each filled with balls indicating all the city's neighborhoods, to determine which two neighborhoods would switch residents. Once neighborhoods were assigned, residents created their own systems for allocating houses on their newly designated blocks.

In 2017 Danish photographer Clara Jørgensen was traveling on holiday in the United States.  She was visiting Seattle, WA when she read about the city of  Angeline and the lottery.  She visited Angeline, inspired to work on a new show, she visited households in different neighborhoods. Jørgensen photographed residents in their current household, now two years into the third lottery.  In 2018, she showed at the Martin Kørner Gallery in Copenhagen.  The show was titled The Relocation of Angeline.  

On view from August 14 - 31, 2021