Maureen Anderson
Object of Desire
March 15 - April 14 2007
The Vitrines are co-presented with Images Festival
Image:
Object of Desire, 2005, looped video, sizes variable
Maureen Anderson’s video installation Objects of Desire is
composed of over 1,800
mug shots of people wanted on drug charges by the Florida Department of
Corrections.
At present in the US,
there are more than 2 million people incarcerated many of them on
minor drug charges. In many ways, this criminal activity is the product
of its own solution: as
the justice system becomes more and more a part of the market economy,
it needs to incarcerate
more and more people. Anderson’s looped video portraits give faces
to some of
this anonymous mass of forgotten individuals.
Maureen Anderson was born in 1977 and received her MFA in Public
Art in 2006 from Bauhaus University
in Weimar, Germany. She works in many media including performance, painting,
photography, and writing
as ways to explore human identity. She has exhibited in New York and Germany,
and is currently living in
South Korea.
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