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October 2
is Love
new work by Amanda Faye
Cain
opening at
Detroit
MONA
Love feels
like a threat in American society.
Why are we so afraid to
open up and become vulnerable for each other?
We [UTF-8?]aren’t
hiding
anything threatening, but we feel threatened by love,
or, by the
opportunity to heal. [UTF-8?]
We’re defensive, we want to feel safe,
but [UTF-8?]we’ve
been hurt -
whether it was by our parents, friends, past lovers, or
[UTF-8?]society’s demands
and powers of control that we have no
control over.
Love has become a game, when at one point, it was all that we lived
for: one another.
We had a chance to change this, we had many chances
to accept love
and change the way we lived [UTF-8?]…but we never
really took
that chance.
The repercussions that came after failing to be fearless
and open
determined all of our current failings, or, whatever you want
to label them as,
and I [UTF-8?]won’t list them, I will let you
think of the
hidden,
yet very in-your-your face, global tragedies
that we are
collectively conscious of
yet do nothing to
prevent.
In order to
accurately display my affliction, obsession, and experience with
love,
I will display all of the photographs I have taken over the
course of 10 years
of some of the most intimate moments I have shared
with the men in my life.
I will also be displaying 10 years worth of
writings,
scanned from pages in my journals.
Additionally, I worked
on a conceptual stop animation piece with Mark Tucker and Dave Sanders
that depicts my intimate encounters with men.
Sadly, because this last
encounter did not last, the search continues.
- Amanda Faye
Cain
is
Love
@
The Russell Industrial
Center
1600 Clay Street
Detroit - Bldg.
2, 3rd
Floor
reception: Saturday, October
2
from 6-10pm
email:
detroitmona@aol.com
web: detroitmona.com
