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Friday, May 25, 2007

Utopian Mirage

Vassar College
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film

May 25 - July 29, 2007

[image from exhibition: Ruins of Drop City Commune,Trinidad, Colorado, August 1995. Joel Sternfeld, 2005]

"Utopia, the notion of an ideal society, imagines a place or a community where social contradictions are annulled in a collective dream in which peace and harmony are perfected. ... But what has come of these utopias in the 21st century? The artists whose work is included in Utopian Mirage, revisit these dreams today to discover that they have often been overtaken by the dystopian realities of urban decay, corruption, loss of innocence, and nature's entropic cycles."

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