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Thu Apr 3 - Sat May 24

The past is an image we form in the present


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$2 - $5
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Location
Date and Time
SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
cross street: Third Street
district: SoMa

Thu Apr 3 (Tuesdays-Saturdays 12 - 5 p.m.)
Fri Apr 4 (Tuesdays-Saturdays 12 - 5 p.m.)
Sat Apr 5 (Tuesdays-Saturdays 12 - 5 p.m.)
Sun Apr 6 (Tuesdays-Saturdays 12 - 5 p.m.)
Mon Apr 7 (Tuesdays-Saturdays 12 - 5 p.m.)

Description
Past is an image we form in the present

In this show curated by Chuck Mobley and Emma Tramposch, three artists who make use of and manipulate vernacular images from family scrapbooks and home movies exert control over the perception of memory in both literal and metaphorical ways.

San Francisco artist Liz Steketee raids the family album in order to mend familial rifts. She brings together long estranged relatives through manipulated snapshots that disrupt chronological narratives. Fashioned with the best intentions, Steketee's method also exudes a slightly sinister and authoritarian tone leaving one wondering if perhaps it might be best to let sleeping dogs lie.

Berlin-based artist Pablo Pijnappel offers a blunt recounting of his family's secret history in a 9-minute video entitled 1921-1977, 1979-2002.
In it, Super 8 footage shot by his grandfather is accompanied by Pijnappel's personal narration and subtitles that unearth family infidelities and scandals.