Trace/in order to know them better I invite them into my world
Leah Decter
Lisa Deanne Smith
Clint Griffin
Dates Showing: August 19th - September 22nd, 2001
Leah Decter's new exhibition TRACE examines issues of individuality and scientific identification. Using images of teeth and concepts of forensic dentistry, she creates a museum-like environment where human beings are identified only by number, bite-mark and grandparents' birthplace. Viewers will be able to contribute their own bite-mark identification.
Clint Griffin sews, scribbles on, and otherwise manipulates found photographs in order to "collaborate with unknown people".
Lisa Deanne Smith creates swaying columns out of collected hair that she finds discarded in public places or that is given to her out of brushes and combs. Griffin and Smith are interested in collaborating on delicate, site-specific installations that evoke somatic responses from the viewer - whether it is attraction/repulsion or simply the effects of walking through a physically fragile space filled with "personal" mementos.
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