Greetings and Salutations!
As the weather warms, please join us at 108 Occidental Gallery for a spectacle
of light and spacial vertigo from local artist Curtiss Erlinger.
Reception: First Thursday June 4th 6-9pm
light snacks and drinks
(after this thursday please call to set up a viewing)
Cassettes
“A spectacle of life not
remembered but of life forgotten; like dream images, these cinematic
fragments are hieroglyphic clues to a past illuminated at the very
moment of its disappearance.” – Walter Benjamin
In order to forever remember, memory is often objectified:
monuments are built to counter our collective amnesia, fleeting moments
and personal histories
are recorded and preserved, everything quantifiable is documented and
catalogued as known. As we rely on these presentations of permanence to
fabricate our memory, we relieve ourselves from the act of remembering,
consequently enabling the process of forgetting. My work examines the spectacle
of “life forgotten”:
the slippery boundaries between the concrete logic of scientific
inquiry and the seductive, seemingly unbiased truth of photography.
The shadowy works act in a filmic manner, artificially resurrecting
the fragmented dead, however impossible it may be. The fleeting attempt
to revitalize what has been lost only highlights the inability to do
so. Cultivating memory illuminates a serious responsibility – memories
cannot only be kept, they must also be nurtured. – Curtis Erlinger
Image:
Bootleg
C-Print
2009
Hope to see you there!
Cait Willis
108 Occidental Gallery
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