| The Voting Booth ProjectOctober 14, 2008- October 25, 2008
Marcel DzamaAgainst the common good / Contra el Bien General (2008) |
David Zwirner is pleased to support the Rema Hort
Mann Foundation in presenting The Voting Booth
Project. The Rema Hort Mann Foundation commissioned
five artists to create work using original voting
booths from the 2000 presidential election in
Florida. The voting machines from West Palm Beach
County retain remnants of original voter materials,
including the “hanging chads” and “butterfly ballots”
now shorthand for the historical events of the
confused ballot count. In anticipation of the 2008
election, assume vivid astro focus, Sanford Biggers,
Marcel Dzama, Mickalene Thomas, and Fred Tomaselli
have created distinct projects that confront issues of
power, memory, and political consequence.
“The booths are relics of a controversy,” said Foundation Director Quang Bao. “They look like a
Get Smart contraption. If you think about each of the artist’s five booths carefully—respectively
destroyed, encased, wrapped, embattled, and held accountable—you see how the political
materials are made so descriptive of and consequential to the present.”
The original booths were donated to the Rema Hort Mann Foundation by Jamie and Peter Hort.
Sale of the works through the RHM Foundation will benefit the Foundation’s grant programs in
support of cancer patients and visual artists. The Voting Booth Project is sponsored by the Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council, September 11th Fund, and private donors. The exhibition will travel to
Lehmann Maupin and be on view November 7-8.
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