Twin Twin
dal 1/4/2005 al 24/4/2005
Segnalato da
1/4/2005
Twin Twin
vertexList, New York
A two person exhibition by Matt Freedman and Jude Tallichet. The exhibition represents a meditation by the artists on the residual significance that the fallen World Trade Towers continue to have in our lives
vertextList has the pleasure to announce "Twin Twin", a two person exhibition
by Matt Freedman and Jude Tallichet.
Twin Twin represents a meditation by the artists on the residual significance
that the fallen World Trade Towers continue to have in our lives; the power they
exert over our imaginations, even the way they have come to structure our consciousness.
Matt Freedman's share of the exhibition is a kind of grab bag museum cum flea
market filled with dozens of crude projects; some inspired by the shape of
the towers, some simple superimpositions of the towers on everyday items and
some appropriated the visions of the towers that lurk in unlikely places. Jude
Tallichet has placed light sensitive highway construction lights inside
closed cardboard boxes. The yellow lights flicker through the boxes' seams. The
uncanniness of this image ruptures the boxes' stolid presence, creating a
disturbance in our habitual mapping of the space around us. She recalls for us in
miniature, using the most humble of material strategies, the enormous assault
on our sense of place represented by the assaults of September 11, 2001.
Matt Freedman writes: "Now that the Towers are gone any historical emotion,
positive or negative, that we ever attached to them has been engulfed by the
history of their terrible fate. We find to our surprise that their physical
eradication has finally elevated them to the irreducible iconographic status they
originally sought - a condition, it is crucial to stress, not to be confused
with their post-apocalyptic exploitation as jingoistic political symbols. The
Tower's original creators intended them to occupy space formally, as elegant
machines of commerce. Instead, they have somehow transcended their physical
nature to become embodiments of something so profound that it is beyond
language's power to contain.
The two paired marks are buried in our minds. They are themselves now beyond
description; irreducible and unexplainable emotional experiences. The huge
buildings have become scratches and shadows, and will be with us forever."
An opening for the artists will be held from 7-9pm on Saturday, April 2. Live gameboy music performance by role model from Sweden starting 9pm, free admission.
special thanks to our sponsors: www.kasina.com and Mr. Lawrence Shultz
vertexList - 138 Bayard St Brooklyn - NY