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Hannah Whitaker’s exhibition Shadow Detail includes several interrelated components: new photographs, a large collaged triptych, a video work, and several sculptural lamps. An expansion of the photographic series featured in her recent book Ursula, Whitaker’s latest work similarly investigates the rich and estranging sensory potential of silhouettes and patterns. Working with the same model she collaborated with in Ursula, Whitaker continues to push the human form into alien terrain, at times wrapping the body with highly reflective tape that lends it a robotic quality, or draping it with …