Michele Pred: (Dis)Possessions
June 15-October 12, 2008
How important to you are your personal items? What does it mean to you
when they are taken away? Michele Pred (CA) investigates these
questions with sculptures made of materials confiscated at airport
security the checkpoints since 9/11. Pred believes that “seeing these
ordinary objects, most of them so seemingly harmless, as imbued with
the potential for danger may make us laugh, as well as make us angry.
The complexity of our response echoes the objects themselves; each
small tool, like each of us, bears some of the weight of a changed
world.”
Made of objects such as lighters, nail clippers, pocketknives, razor
blades, scissors, and other belongings, the artist’s sculptures deal
with both personal and shared memories. Mundane items that individually
may have significance only to their owners form images laden with
universal meanings in Pred’s new groupings. For example, Double Edge,
a United States map created with confiscated razor blades, illustrates
recurring themes of safety, security, collecting, memory, consumerism,
and globalization.
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