PAST EXHIBITION

Thomas Hirschhorn: Laundrette

June 12, 2007—July 27, 2008

ongoing exhibition:
The French title, feminine in gender, for what in America is referred to in the harsher sounding Laundromat, carries a sense of nurturing, of return to the basics, of the equalization that occurs when distinctions fade in the humdrum environment of fulfilling the basic tasks of life. Here, however, using commonplace materials as cardboard, linoleum, postage tape and aluminum foil, Hirschhorn creates a political placard that confronts us with our self-absorption in daily life functions while in the world around us pain, fear and callousness to humanity abounds. 

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