POSTED: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 7:00 PM
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| Martine Fougeron |
| Disco Bus Folly, Adrien and Zoe |
Gallery 339 (339 South 21st St) has two exhibits closing this Sat., Jan. 29 that I think you should see:
Martine Fougeron's "After Prom"
(from the Tête-à -Tête Project) captures moment-to-moment life of her sons hanging out with their friends after prom. A dilemma I found is that these photographs — ritically acclaimed on NPR and The New Yorker for their portrayal of genuine moments — were taken by these guys' mom, which would seem to create a sort of social Heisenberg uncertainty (i.e. I know my partying would be less genuine if my mother was around taking photos). Still, that doesn't take away from the fact that these photos are filled with the life and movement, as well as doldrums and lethargy of the archetypal post-prom adolescent weekend.
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| Martine Fougeron |
| Adrien's Carpet |
The other exhibit is
Rita Bernstein's "Ghosts of Summer," a series of silver emulsions on Japanese gampi, a type of rice-paper. Adequately named, these depictions of children in summertime is thoroughly haunting, and amazingly textured (think ambient vinyl clicks on an old phonograph, except, you know, visual).
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| Rita Bernstein |
| Sliding Pond |
