Emma Bee Bernstein "An Imagined Space"
Galeria Janet Kurnatowski
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“Using a historical imagination filtered through our contemporary visual culture,” Emma Bee Bernstein says, “I paste together fragments of feminine representation into newly envisioned configurations.” Bernstein’s first solo show with the gallery, An Imagined Space, displays 24 of these original configurations, created by the artist between 2005 and 2007.
Bernstein, who was just 23 when she died in 2008, often documented young women engrossed in games of dress-up and posing. Her photographs reflect critically on the historical, political, and social representations of femininity and are replete with allusions to historical paintings and photographs. For Bernstein, the display of femininity is inexorably linked to artifice and fashion. At the same time, her poignant pictures pierce the veil of their own tableaux, revealing powerful affective currents. An Imagined Space reveals, revels even, in the imaginary spaces of a photographic theater.
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Schedule
from March 25, 2011 to April 23, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-03-25 from 19:00 to 21:00