REBECCA HACKEMANN: “PEEK”
July 7-August 6, 2006 DABORA GALLERY 1080 Manahttan Avenue, between Dupont and Eagle Streets, Brooklyn NY, 718. 609.9629 Lynda Mahan: lynda@daboragallery.com URL: http://www.daboragallery.com Article Projects and Dabora Gallery are proud to exhibit “Peek” by Rebecca Hackemann, a storefront installation of the artist’s stereoscopes, which make certain participatory demands upon the viewer, to gaze into the twin eyeholes to see the art—and when facing the images contained inside, one is also called upon to read the messages that accompany them, putting together the separate elements of a complicated esthetic event that is both imagistic and linguistic at the same time. Each of the collages in her stereoscopes is part quandary and part parable. Rebecca Hackemann is a contemporary artist whose pieces stretch the definition of fine art black and white photography as language and formally as flat image on the wall. Photography and sculpture are combined into “photo based” work or optical scu...