Eric Heist "Monuments"
Schroeder Romero & Shredder
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Monuments is an installation comprised of sculpture, paintings, and video investigating the vexed identity of victims and victimizers in our contemporary culture. Heist illuminates these flawed, inequitable power relationships with small gouaches depicting landscapes containing vestiges of past lives and sites of violence where individuals have experienced victim status, including post-Katrina New Orleans, the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX, and the infamous Guantanamo Bay detainment facility. Text-based paintings depicting the rearranged speeches and conversations of influential conservatives––such as Ann Coulter and JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon––exaggerate the particular characteristics informing their behavior. Here, Heist pairs simplistic rendering with bright coloration as a way to undermine the authority of these individual's words.
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Schedule
from January 27, 2011 to February 26, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-27 from 18:00 to 20:00