Exhibition Essays 2007

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The Precarity of Truth

by Pablo de Ocampo
From the exhibition The Boy Who Got Tired of Posing by Bani Abidi (October 25 – November 24, 2007)
In an increasingly globalized world—with Internet news, cell phones, blogs and the like—it’s often all too easy to get lulled into a…

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Lossy Life and Keepsakes

by Sally McKay
From the exhibition Grand Gestures by 640 480 (September 6 – October 13, 2007)
What is 640 480? At the beginning of the 21st century, when members of the video collective 640 480 was forming, it was the formula…

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Monsieur Sasaki’s Holiday

by Brian Joseph Davis
From exhibition Wishing for Three More Wishes by Jon Sasaki (June 22 – July 24, 2007)
The “everyman” is simply essential in physical comedy. For an audience to truly unite in laughter, the comedian must be a projecting…

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Surveyor: The Role of the Mirror in the Work of Dominique Rey

by Steven Matijcio
From the exhibition Selling Venus/Vénus au miroir (May 11 – June 9, 2007)
From their representation in early reliefs of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, to their optical dynamics in the jewel-like paintings…

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Taking to the Periphery

by Andréa Picard
From the exhibition Grossraum by Lonnie van Brummelen (April 5 – May 5, 2007)
The more one learns about van Brummelen, however, the more one cannot deny the steadfast left-leaning critical engagement…

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Faces of Death…

by Ulysses Castellanos
From the exhibition Death…it’s out there curated by Ulysses Castellanos (February 24 – March 24, 2007)
Death leaves its mark everywhere around the world. Rich people and poor people, criminals and outstanding citizens, celebrities and…

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Lindsay Page: Force Field

by Chris Gehman
From the exhibition Force Fields by Lindsay Page (January 11 – February 17, 2007)
Lindsay Page’s installation Force Field provides a visual framework for thinking about our changing relationship to the moving image…

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