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Sreshta Premnath · New York NY Nov 17–Dec 8, 2006 In KCAPUT (read C crossed out) I force a juxtaposition, a slippage. Caput in Latin means head, Kaput in German means destroyed, over, broken. A kind of verbal decapitation signaled by the crossing of the C is explored by the photographic diptych in the installation. Both images are derived from press photos, one of Al Zarquawi holding Nick Berg's decapitated head in his fist, the other, a more recent image of US officers holding a framed photograph of Al Zarquawi's dead visage. A strange reversal has occurred here. The US press has deployed the very rhetoric it chastises, by anesthetizing its decapitation through photographic cropping and framing. This emblem of disembodiment and reversal becomes the central motif through which I explore issues of de-contextualization and the empty signifier. An emblem which gathers meaning only through the staging of its image repertoire.	Jean Alexander Frater · Cleveland OH Dec 12, 2006–Jan 5, 2007 Time is often represented by a line: A timeline, marking specific moments which are spatially relative, and usually a notation of some value accompanies each point. The entire line often delineates a progression, located within a subject matter, wherein we can place ourselves and at times think about the future. It is a representation of an ongoing series of moments or points, which leap gaps of massive conceptual shifts, that perhaps denied conventional wisdom of the time. These gaps are bridged by one thin and entirely antithetical line, which carries our eyes quickly and passively over the web of possibilities, the constellation of trajectories, to the next moment and so on again. Suggesting a simple: First this, then that. Once it has begun it necessarily continues as the crow flies. In the works presented: The timeline, which is already an oversimplified signifier or representation of the passage of time, is made even more minimal. Taking the point, as one unique form: Points; and the line, as another: Horizon 1 and 2. Combined here, not on the same plane, but within a time concept context. Individually operating, both formally and minimally, allowing for personal associations to be born with each work, and then to bear those associations on each other, broadening concepts.
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