October 08 – November 08, 2008

"Left, Right and Center"
OT Gallery

A group show of prints curated by Patrick Merrill

Unfocused imagery, blurry reality

A quote from President George Bush: “There’s plenty of time for politics”, inspired these pieces. He said this sentence when he rejected calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics over China’s human-rights record.
I work with images extracted from the news or photos that I have taken. The images, generated with Photoshop, are blurry like the perception I have of the reality of events which are difficult to understand and always more complicated than the media presents them. We never remember many details about a past event.  There are so many of them.  The quotes are very small on the large prints: I do not intend for the viewer to see them first.

Michele Guieu, August 2008

“There’s plenty of time for politics #1”
2008, print on paper, 40"x60"
The small text on the left of the image: "There's plenty of time for politics." President George W. Bush, rejecting calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics over China human-rights records.

“There’s plenty of time for politics #5”
2008, print on paper, 40"x60"
the small text on the left of the image: The tanks should go. I hope they will."
Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia, after reaching an agreement with Russia that could end their conflict.

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