Ben Peterson The Pilgrim's Progress
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Opening reception: January 16, 2009, 6-8pm.Ratio 3 is pleased to present The Pilgrim’s Progress, new work by Ben Peterson, on view from January 16 to February 28, 2009.
Ben Peterson will present a series of drawings depicting an imagined collision between two types of themed communities; a golf course retirement development and a historical reenactment theme park. Using the form of fragmented follie-type structures, Peterson attempts to collapse the distinction between authenticity and artifice, entertainment and education. Peterson’s depicted landscapes are loaded with manicured putting greens, golf bags, historical museum displays, large trees, and the ghosts of pilgrims who bear witness to the collision of Colonial forts, gated developments, golf carts, and shipwrecks. In the work, Peterson’s structures create a new space where history, both of the winners and the losers, contaminates the present, giving rise to a hybrid stage that is neither completed nor abandoned.
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