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Past Exhibition: Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces October 26 - November 24, 2004 Opening Reception & 30th Anniversary Celebration: Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 5-8pm. Photo credit: Wang Qingsong Monument Recall: Public Memory and Public Spaces Curated by Paula Levine, Trena Noval and Laurie Blavin. Monuments remind and warn. They speak to the future and the past. Monument Recall seeks to illuminate this play between past and future, opening dialogues about what society chooses to remember or forget, and what underlying values and ideologies are embedded in markers of public memory. Contemporary political events have weighed heavily upon the need for public monuments to form a bridge between individual lives and larger institutional values. Here, contemporary international artists, architects, designers, web artists and writers set a course that challenges conventional definition of monuments, and offer new imagery and concepts of what a monument can be. The work presented expands the breadth, voice, appearance and materiality of what we are accustomed to seeing as public monuments. Some contributors use the framework of conventional monuments to question what the public values, presenting unconventional content that represents collective memory in a new light. Others address the impact of changing politics upon the public topography of cultural or historical memory. Many offer opportunities to strip away the residue of time and uncover histories we have forgotten or taken for granted. While looking at the complex terrain of selecting and sustaining public memory over time, we hope that at the heart of this exhibition lies a broader discussion around the practice and expectations of public commemoratives. GALLERY ARTISTS The Boym Partners Thomas Kellner Germaine Koh Tony Labat Manuel Piña John Roloff Eva Sutton Lex Thompson Wang Qingsong Mabel O. Wilson + Paul Kariouk/KW:a SITE SPECIFIC WORKS Mark Brest van Kempen, Debbie and Larry Kline David Maisel Jeannene Przyblysky/The Bureau of Urban Secrets Stephanie Snyder and Aaron Day Please visit: Improbable Monuments The online exhibition A collection of proposals for unlikely commemoratives past exhibitions: View descriptions and selected photos from exhibitions of the past few years. Return to Past Exhibition list home | about | exhibitions | bookstore | events | membership | journal | mentoring | links Copyright 2005. SF Camerawork. All Rights Reserved.