Yasmine Chatila "Reveries and Delusions"
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Yasmine Chatila, whose controversial series Stolen Moments made headlines in New York and internationally, has temporarily set her surveillance equipment aside and picked up more traditional means for creating art. Her new series of collages is a more introverted body of work-an exercise in free association that provides the viewer with a voyeuristic window into her mind, deliberately turning the tables on herself.
The collages are sourced from current and vintage periodicals and illuminate Chatila's feelings on religion, war, pop culture and the environment. A collage taken from a 1960s National Geographic embodies the na?veté of that era. Illustrated, romanticized food products are juxtaposed with a fertilizer plant built contemporaneously in a barren and desolate rural reality. Somewhat obscured and ominous, the plant is nestled in the background of the cartoon-like country landscape. Yet another collage juxtaposes a figurine of the Virgin Mary seemingly diving headfirst into a cleverly concealed pink donut hole. The final images rendered are scanned and digitally reworked and printed as photographs.
Yasmine Chatila was born in 1974 in Cairo. She received her MFA from Columbia University in New York.
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Schedule
from June 02, 2011 to July 29, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-06-02 from 18:00 to 20:00