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Opening Reception: Friday, March 12, 2010 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1-4pm, or by appointment
The Royal NoneSuch Gallery is excited to present Bitter Harvest: New Work by Lauren Frances Adams.
Bitter Harvest explores Lauren Adams’ research into Afghani poppy fields and the relationship between American military operations, the Taliban, and civilian farmers in Afghanistan’s ‘Golden Crescent’. For the past few years, the artist has documented images published about issues surrounding these topics in popular media and will re-inscribe the found narratives in a site specific painting on the gallery’s interior walls in Bitter Harvest, resulting in a claustrophobic interior overwhelmed by poppy flowers and human figures. The visual pattern evident in the installation, inspired by contemporary war reporting and traditional wallpaper and ornament design, visually seduces the viewer while simultaneously assaulting them with hallucinatory images of poppy cultivation and its relationship to the international drug trade, the American military incursion in Afghanistan, and the cycle of economic underdevelopment in rural farm areas of the Golden Crescent.
Gallery website: www.royalnonesuchgallery.com
Artist website: www.lfadams.com
