vault
Aimee Burg

GALLERY III

May 23- June 16, 2012

We now live in the era that speculative fiction authors imagined as “the future”. We have unprecedented access to information, but profound uncertainty about its actual truthfulness or benefit. vault investigates the disorienting possibilities of removing meaning from knowledge-packed imagery, i.e. science diagrams and test patterns. Burg’s objects and images are stripped of purpose; this simplicity provides a sense of safety. The viewer is at ease despite being surrounded by the unknown.

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