Home by Benjamin Rasmussen
Open now until April 12th
The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
Free & open to the public
To inquire about Home including purchase prices please contact bferraro@archdc.org.
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| Benjamin Rassmussen "The Oldest Village," 2011 |
Excerpt:
Elsewhere in the show, Rasmussen gives us signs of life to drive home that this is his lived experience, including photos of an Easter-egg toss in Meriden, Wyo., and another of village kids horsing around in Balabac. Candid moments make these photographs feel remote, like memories captured in snapshots—but they are presented at a scale that undoes their intimacy. That’s the real struggle in this exhibit: The large prints promise tactile detail and signal authorial remove, whereas “home” is a construct made of memory, nostalgia, and longing. He’s giving us the Faroe Islands and Balabac and rural Wyoming, unfiltered. Home is anything but unfiltered.
This was a great show. I fell in love with the diving board piece.
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