“She Was a Film Star Before She Was My Mother” Exhibition
Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs
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A color brochure with an essay by the curator has been published to accompany the exhibition. In works of photography, video, performance, and installation, the artists of She Was A Film Star Before She Was My Mother – Guy Ben - Ner, LaToya Ruby Frazi er, Simon Fujiwara, André Kertész, Sally Mann, Marilyn Minter, Rona Yefman, and Bryan Zanisnik – question the constructed narrative of family. Such narratives, based as they are on a family’s collective memories which accumulate and are manipulated by the passage of time, expose sources of the fragility of relationships amongst siblings, parents, spouses, and children. By inviting us into this immediate and vulnerable space, where gender, identity, power, and the absurd are unanchored, the origins of their – and our – individual political, emotional, and social motivations are brought into focus. By examining their roles within their individual family structures and their own places of origin, the artists in She Was A Film Star Before She Was My Mother explore the complexities of a simple question: “What is truth?” Recovered from the depths of the artists’ psyche, the resulting photographs and videos are demonstrations of what is psychologically, socially, and culturally possible when aspirations and disappoin tments are made manifest and fantasies are embraced. Sonel Breslav is an independent curator and the founder of Blonde Art Books, a Brooklyn - based organization dedicated to promoting self - published art books through exhibitions, book fairs, talks, and onli ne exposure.
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Schedule
from May 04, 2014 to July 13, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-05-04 from 14:00 to 17:00