She Ought to have Wondered
Carole Hanson
Raw
Stacy Lawrence
"IDENTITY ISSUES IN TRANSRACIAL ADOPTEE'S"
Omar Badrin
Dates Showing: September 27 - October 24, 2003
Using everyday objects as metaphors for current social situations, Carole Hanson is interested in exploring the dialogue created around the limitations of agricultural diversity and the genetic engineering/modification of our food supply in relation to a sense of nostalgia for tradition instead of progress. Hanson is ultimately concerned with the identity politics involved in "feeding the world" in a global capitalist society.
Stacy Lawrence's work also reflects issues of consumption. In his series Raw, Lawrence stages abjection in her photographic images of raw meat. Here, Lawrence uses the sublime to question "the concepts that are arbitrarily assigned to the definitions of desire, repulsion, and attraction, all of which are implicated in the processes of eating". Although the reaction of the viewer is essential is Lawrence's process, he is also exploring the physiological similarities between humans and animals and the philosophical and ethical debates surrounding these similarities.
Omar Badrin's new work is focused on identity, cultural assimilation and the
examination of perceptual identity. Badrin's proposed installations consist
of a five- wall medicine cabinet that houses a variety of multiple objects
with corresponding texts. The medicine cabinets and mirrors are chosen to
represent our habitual routine of viewing ourselves in the mirror and our
dependence on the cosmetics we store in the medicine cabinets to momentarily
relieve anguish. Contained in each cabinet, the viewer will find objects
such as Petri dishes, vials, skin molds, cow eyes in formaldehyde, human
hair and glass beakers filled with bleach.
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