Gallery Exhibition


 Deborah L. O’Grady, USA
From the “The Soldier’s Dream” 2004/05 series:
“Plain Jane”
Archival giclee on rag paper
16” x 20”
 
SUBJECTS OF POWER
AND DEVOTION
Terrace Level Gallery
OAS General Secretariat Building
1889 F Street NW, Washington DC 20006
February-April 2008 
Hours:  10 – 5, Monday through Friday

Curated by Fabian Goncalves Borrega, Subjects of Power and Devotion includes the work of twenty artists exploring themes of spirituality and memory, and internal and external conflict, through charged fetishized objects, personal narratives, and the recontextualization of everyday objects.

 Objects have a mysterious ability to attract our attention, our desire, and our intrigue. This ability can simply (or not so simply) derive from the aesthetics of the object, or through the object functioning as placeholder for emotional or otherwise significant human experiences. This process is one of synthesis and condensation of elements that creates fetishes charged with religious or other forms of devotion and attraction. In the photographs collected for Subjects of Power and Devotion, the objects under the artist’s gaze are diverse, from human bodies to fragmentary landscapes, but all explore the way we honor, fetishize, and encode desire, memory and power into material substance, including our own bodies. 
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