Linda Van Boven "Eventually the Dreams Will Alter"
Florence Lynch Gallery
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Linda Van Boven presents a new body of work comprised of photographs and light-boxes. These images she associates with memories from her youth and important events from her life. The theme that unites these works is hope, the future, and fear.
Denise Carvalho describes one of the new works as follow: Light box #19 features another series of three images: an electric wire dangling from a bright but fuzzy light, an out-of-focus image of a child in a bathtub, and a small rectangle of light reflected on the wall of a corner of a room. The simplicity and apparent disconnection between these images in which light is the only common denominator suggests the frailty of memory and fragmented emotions. Associations with the meaning of light as language help us to decode the elements of the work, in which light is equated with the birth of a child, and the bath water with the mother's womb. In another frame, the wire is an obvious pun, as it materializes and distributes energy. The birth of a child can be all of that: energy expenditure, a lively home, and a peaceful contemplation centered in the affairs of the home.
While a paragraph from Taubman's essay aptly states "Linda Van Boven's new series of light box installations and photographs "Eventually the Dreams will Alter" reinforces her consistent use of images familiar to viewers. Children, house, beds and sleeping are images that lead us deep into personal memories because we recognize them as private places -- the bedroom, the symbol of sleeping in the daytime -- perhaps the woman is depressed? Dimly lit streets, mothers with their children in a city street, a forest, an urban landscape in the daytime -- all of these images represent incidental qualities that are filed away like forgotten memos amidst and between the necessary files of everyday chores. Images are lifted out of the banality of daily life identifying personal symbolic narratives that emanate from Van Boven's broken, juxtaposed images allowing them to resonate with deep psychological poetry."
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from September 12, 2008 to October 11, 2008