Saturday, January 19, 2013

With My Back To The World


There are some heavy utterances traveling through Threewalls. They are the sounds of Mary Patton’s multi-channel video, Panel; a re-interpretation of a 1975 panel discussion on the relationship between doctors and torture, and coercion therapy used in prisons and institutions.

When you are in that little jewelry box that is my gallery/studio, Michael Foucault and Judith Clark echo through as if they are shouting “how can you allow yourself this ambrosia when there are power imbalances to think about?” If I were ever going to be embarrassed by beauty now would be the time.


                             Agnes Martin, With My Back to the World, 1997



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