"A Vernacular of Violence" Exhibition
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS
This event has ended.
Pictures of violence wallpaper our lives, and yet they seem remote, aloof. Those images, demanding and harrowing, can seem nevertheless inaccessible in a visual culture that evangelizes the transformative power of the impulse to reinvent, recreate and in turn, demystify and deconstruct. The six artists gathered here, in an exhibition inspired by conversations with Lisa Kirk, approach violence and its representations as abundant and demanding source material— cultural detritus that is also cultural infrastructure— determined to deprive violence of the sacred space fashioned for it by inaccessibility. The work of each artist employs the use of facsimiles, mixing fact with fiction, as Rita Sobral Campos has written, to interrogate common convictions about culture and violence, and to offer testimony that the best way to know something is to remake it.
[Image: Eric Baudelaire "Sugar Water"(2007) Video Still. Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Dee Gallery]
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Schedule
from May 14, 2010 to June 20, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-05-14 from 18:00 to 20:00