Linda Tempo Basis Assortment, Ruby Metropolis
British artist Jonathan Monk’s In Version (to tears) options an eerie passport picture mutilated with a strategically positioned pair of dangle earrings.
A former blackbox theater house at San Antonio’s Ruby Metropolis arts complicated has undergone a stark white makeover for Unsettled Eye, an exhibition of photography-based works held within the Linda Tempo Basis Assortment.
Presenting way more questions than solutions, the group present includes acquainted works and up to date acquisitions alike, with a way of discomfort functioning as a thematic thread. It opens Saturday, June 1.
“The exhibition revolves round a number of photo-based works which trigger viewers to be shocked and even troubled by their look and subject material or the supplies used of their manufacturing,” Ruby Metropolis Director Elyse A. Gonzales informed the Present. “They disturb or name into query what viewers are seeing — hopefully ‘unsettling’ them in the absolute best method!”
Among the many highlights, Artpace alum Anne Collier’s 2009 diptych Eyes of Laura Mars goes past meta by presenting appropriated photographs of actress Faye Dunaway — wanting fairly unsettled herself — portraying a photographer within the 1978 thriller of the identical title.
A fellow fan of high-concept appropriation, British artist Jonathan Monk equally calls for eye contact with In Version (to tears) — an eerie passport picture mutilated with a strategically positioned pair of dangle earrings.
“One prime instance of the present is James Casebere’s Panopticon Jail #3,” Gonzales continued. “It appears like a picture of a constructing in shadow however is definitely a mannequin of a jail he photographed. His work brings up all method of concepts associated to incarceration and the sometimes-flawed notions we’ve about structure’s capability to be rehabilitative to these residing inside its confines.” Free, walk-through and opening reception 2-5 p.m. Saturday, June 1, on view by appointment 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday-Sunday by way of April 27, 2025, Ruby Metropolis, 150 Camp St., (210) 227-8400, rubycity.org.Subscribe to SA Present newsletters.
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