Museum of Contemporary Art

This exhibit was of 14 women artists and photographers. It consisted of many different types of artwork but revolved around the exploration of the memory through connections and oppositions. The one piece that really stood out to me was a chromogenic print called “The Day the Earth Caught Fire from The Day, the Earth” by Susan Silton. She was able to make here images almost stand out the same way a hologram works. There were many color bars on the portrait and you can not see the photographic very well unless you are looking at it from the side. The bars open up and let you see through, but when you stand straight ahead from it, it mainly covers the image in the colors.

Another piece I enjoyed was “100 Boots” by Eleanor Antin. It consisted of fifty one post cards all lined up horizontally on the wall. She used in the photographs 100 boots to simulate a picture in her memory that could have been reality. The exhibition explains it as depending on an almost impossible use of medium to make a false memory of something that occurred as a dramatic act. It is interesting because they explain that the camera is used in this case as a tool to self-consciously construct an image that can model reality but does not really show the original fictional act of what was going on.

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