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Krowswork

May 21 - June 19, 2011

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480 23rd Street Oakland, CA 94612
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Circumscribing the Liminal Teresa Cunniff
Reception for the artists, Saturday May 21, 7-10 pm Krowswork is pleased to present Circumscribing the Liminal, an exhibition of photography by Naaman Rosen, four video projects by Malak Helmy, and a video/sound installation by Teresa Cunniff. Each of these three artists has focused attention on a particular liminal, or in-between, though paradoxically bounded space -- Rosen, KOA Kampgrounds; Helmy, domestic "compounds"; Cunniff, an imagined Bardo plane -- whose thresholds seem to exist almost solely via a left-over or forced language and whose physical referent no longer necessarily corresponds to the original function or meaning. This examination warns of the larger risk to meaning posed by treating non-structures as structures, while revealing the true liminal nature of this structural and linguistic breakdown--with its attendant potential for total reconfiguration, re-equalization, and transcendence. By drawing their own shape-shifting visual language around these specific zones, Rosen, Helmy, and Cunniff are each in their own way circumscribing the liminal so that we may engage with these spaces in an actual way as a point of reintegration into the real.
Circumscribing the Liminal Malak Helmy
Circumscribing the Liminal Naaman Rosen - KOA Kampground