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EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
Special Project: Amy O'Neill : Old Noah's Ark
October 21, 2004 to February 21, 2005
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is proud to present new Special Projects on October 24, 2004, including works by Paolo Canevari, Petra Lindholm, and Amy O'Neill. Special Projects are selected individually, without attention to a theme in order to reflect the extraordinary energy and variety of practices among young artists working in New York City and abroad.
October 24, 2004 -February 21 Paolo Canevari: Welcome to Oz Courtyard. Selected by P.S.1 Executive Director Alanna Heiss.
Paolo Canevari's (b. Rome, 1963) installation, Welcome to Oz, revolves around a photograph that ran in several newspapers depicting American soldiers outside the entrance of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison with the words "Welcome to Oz" hanging over their heads. Underscoring the irony and sarcastic implications of this sentence, Canevari defines and develops the idea of imprisonment as both a physical and psychological state. This site-specific installation, a barbed wire structure in P.S.1's courtyard, is constructed of rubber from tire inner tubes bound to a wooden structure. This "fence" designates a private protected territory, defining a space that cannot be entered or escaped as well as addressing an ambiguous concept of prohibition. Viewers in the space, by experiencing a sense of physical and mental constriction, are encouraged to reflect on the authoritative and symbolic meaning of signs, barriers, and borders.
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