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Desiree Holman, Kent Manske, Geof Oppenheimer,
Ricardo Rivera & Schechter / Schimizu
inside view
Feb 15 - Mar 17, 2002
 Opening Reception Friday February 15: 6:30 - 9:30
Pond proudly launches its second successful year of programming with Inside View, its Annual Anniversary group exhibition. The five works curated for the show explore the idiom "inside view", a metaphorically rich expression that suggests a multiplicity of readings revolving around the presupposition that to view, or see, is to understand, and that vision is associable with truth.
Through a diversity of media and visual strategies, the pieces offer a visual invitation to consider a different kind of "inside view", ranging from notions about of intimacy, self-portraiture, to personal
mythography and pop cultural memory.
Wishbook, a diaoramic video installation by Desiree Arlette Holman, narrates the lives of the Manns family, a set of paperdolls clipped from department store catalogues. Endowed with rich personalities and complex interrelationships, the installation makes visible the artist's fascination and delight in bestowing depth to the characters, whose uncanny desires and motivations poignantly reflect upon human nature.
Holman writes,
"Within the pages of [these] catalogues lie many stories. Those housed within wait and hope for the day someone might come a long and cut them free from their
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