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Photo credit:
Jenny Perlin: detail from Crossing Borders (for Walther Benjamin),
1997; installation. Courtesy of the artist.
Photo credits:
Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui: untitled from the series Banishments, 1996-1998,
c-prints. Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi-Sanders Gallery,
Houston.
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Once Removed
Gaye Chan
Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui
Jenny Perlin
Curated by Marnie Gillett and Alicia Miller
ONCE REMOVED brings together the work of artists, Gaye Chan, Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui, and Jenny Perlin, in an exhibition which explores the duality of immigration and
exile. Each artist takes as a departure point the flight from
one "home" to another, and contemplates the complicated range
of emotional and psychological experiences which grow from this.
Gaye Chan’s installation Points of Departure is a reflection on the dispersion
of culture through migration. Focusing on the immigrant narrative,
Points of Departure considers the obliteration of history and
memory through assimilation.
Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui’s series of photographs, Banishments, offer a description of
social and political exile that is both metaphorical and deeply
psychological. Growing from his own experiences as a Cuban exile,
Ordoqui seeks to address more broadly the alienation and disjuncture
between present time, history and memory which characterize the
state of being in exile.
In Crossing Borders (for Walter Benjamin), an installation by
artist Jenny Perlin, the final emmigration of this revered cultural critic is revisited.
Using film, sacred objects, and fractured text, Perlin memorializes
the final exile of Benjamin from Nazi Germany, a journey which
ends with his death.
Gallery Admission is F R E E
Gallery Talks are available for classes and community groups. Please call to
schedule: 415-764-1001 or e-mail us.
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