We Children Of The Zoo
We Children Of The Zoo | Rocksbox Fine Art | Portland, OR | August 16, 2008. September 14, 2008
We Children of the Zoo, a title borrowed from the film Christian F., is an exhibition of site-specific sculptures and collage, combining minimal forms with cultural references lifted from film, television and the web. Snellman rearranges appropriated imagery into formal matrixes, while exploring the unstable frontier between what we consider human and what we still define as animal; each work affirms its relationship to one another through distinctive formal attributes. She collapses historical modes of gender to explore aesthetic conversations in a continual state of doubling back upon themselves, exposing multiple beginnings, and multiple paths.
We Children Of The Zoo reevaluates desire, and smashes the mirror representing the surface of identity. A co-production of the self in relationship to a person who is other, themes of transference and reflection emerge in the other. Notions of the imaginary and constructs of perceived wholeness arise, creating a paradoxical connection between fragmentation of self and other. Snellman's use of decorative print implies a double otherness and brings forward notions of double interiority.
Extroversion and introversion.
An unfolding becomes available, which
conceals and fuses interiority, as well as attempts to reveal through
exteriority.
Language constructed, rational, linear.
Essence, structure & situation
