( 1996 / 1996 Exhibition Programs )

  Sharona Plakidas 6 July- 3 August, 1996 Mercer Union: WindowOpening reception: 6 JulyPlakidas explores the bi-polarities of the profane and the sacred; of the circus tent and the church, with self portraits and a number of additional props such as a circus wagon and flying geese, The artists writes: "The devotional object becomes the exhibitionist subject and the site of worship becomes the enclosed space of a child's fantasy". In Plakidas's work, the whimsical landscape adopts the site of an alter addressing issues of fear, expectation and ex-stasis....

( 1996 / 1996 Exhibition Programs )