Presented at The Center Atlanta by Downtown Atlanta Inc. in partnership with ASHA Advisory.
Discordant Structures combines footage of cheerleading and rugby practices across Georgia. Moving between the two sports, the video follows young athletes through repetitive drills and moments of intense coordination, tracing the exchange between mental and physical strain, control and vulnerability. A conversation between two young athletes guides viewers toward larger questions of trust, authority, and belonging.
Jill Frank (b. 1978) is an Atlanta-based photographer whose large-format photographs often depict social rituals, identity formation, and youth. Diverging from traditional documentary forms, Jill uses sound, scale, repetition and staging to record conquests and games, where representation plays a decisive and transformative role. She currently lives in Atlanta and teaches photography at Georgia State University. Frank studied photography at Bard College and received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Georgia and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Features and reviews of Frank's work have appeared in publications such as Art Papers, Art Forum, The Paris Review, and Bad at Sports.