November 2 - 20, 1982 Stan Denniston
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![]() Stan Denniston, "Kent State U./ Pilgrimage & Mnemonic", invitation image,1982. 18K | ![]() Stan Denniston, installation view of "Kent State U./Pilgrimage & Mnemonic", 1982. Photo Peter MacCallum. 18K |
PRESS RELEASE Stan Denniston's concerns with the associative properties of memory, first evidenced in his 'REMINDERS' series, are further developed in this exhibition to engender a much complexified view of private consciousness. The catalyst of this photographic installation was a visit to the site of an extraordinary public event with which Denniston had a degree of familiarity through mass media representation -- the fantasy of presense. His response is a multi-layered montage/ monument; a photographic equivalent of the primary site synthesized from locations of remembrances of direct experience. Memory as fact, as conscience, and as tribute -- these photographs set a certainty of experience against that fantasy.
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