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The Corner of Your Eye

January 17, 2008- February 23, 2008

Reception: January 17, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Rebecca Horne

Roebling Hall

606 W 26th St

In the Project Room Roebling Hall is pleased to present “The Corner of Your Eye”, Rebecca Horne’s first solo exhibition in New York City.

At first glance, Rebecca Horne’s pictures appear as elegant quotidian scenes or still-lifes of familiar objects. The viewer who too briskly takes in the scene, automatically completing the image in their mind or quickly categorizing it, is lulled into thinking they have fully perceived the image. Peering closer however, the viewer is often surprised to find the photographs reveal themselves to be less ordinary.

Horne accomplishes these twists in the photos with a playful wit, slyly employing a mix of punctured routine expectations and improbable events. She devises ephemeral sculptures comprised of raw elements – such as salt, ice, water or ink that coax the unreliability of the photographic image to the fore. By freely mixing objects and their operations to confuse scale or perform little transubstantiations, Horne’s photographs function as a record of these performative phenomena.

Historically “Nature Morte” operates as a Memento Mori, piercing the illusion of a replete life with reminders of mortality. Horne peels back the alternate veil of illusion, the illusion that still-life is inanimate. Here we glimpse the liminal moment where the image comes to life, quietly slipping from the constraints of logic, revealing the simultaneity of things seen and those that go unseen.

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