Visual Kinship

August 30, 2025 – November 29, 2025
Hood Museum of Art

6 East Wheelock Street
Hanover, NH 03755

Rania Matar, Alae (with the mirror), Beirut, Lebanon, archival pigment print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Edward, Julia, Victoria, and Christopher Hansen Fund for Photographic Acquisitions and the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker '58 Acquisition Fund; 2022.45.2. © Rania Matar

Rania Matar, Alae (with the mirror), Beirut, Lebanon, archival pigment print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Edward, Julia, Victoria, and Christopher Hansen Fund for Photographic Acquisitions and the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker '58 Acquisition Fund; 2022.45.2. © Rania Matar

Visual Kinship explores how photography defines, challenges, and reimagines the concept of family. Across diverse historical and contemporary works, the exhibition examines how images reflect and disrupt family structures shaped by colonialism, migration, transnational adoption, and queer intimacies. Photography plays a pivotal role in bridging the personal and political, offering a lens through which kinship can be recognized, claimed, and contested. The exhibition also considers how visual culture fosters alternative networks of belonging and care, expanding the notion of family beyond biological or traditional frameworks.