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...modes of creation, we have begun to think about them as mutually informative. The '90s, to a great degree, were about developing different models to help us attend to difference. At the same time, retreating behind the defense of pluralism has been blamed for a loss of critical rigor. Visual Memoirs is an example of an installation that walks, and occasionally wobbles on, the line between visual potpourri and meaningful dialogue, in which the viewer has to think about what unites the works besides how diverse they...
...show's finest pieces is by Annette Lemieux, this year a visiting lecturer in Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies department. "Decline," 1989, is a monumental, sepia-toned print of a pastoral scene. Recalling vintage travel posters, a snow-capped mountain ascends in the background, while the image of a waterfall cascades below. The oversize canvas has been set on the floor, leaning casually against the wall, so that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where...
...Denise Marika's work, one of the only examples of photography in Visual Memoirs, highlights this absence from the survey. "Battle Photo Series (I-VII)," 1994-95, is composed of seven separate units arranged side-by-side, each a six-foot-tall strip of a photograph encased in steel channels. The once whole image becomes disembodied arms and legs. Because the continuity of the photo is broken up into segments, the original configuration of limbs is illegible. Are the intertwined bodies screwing or fighting? The frames of steel enclose and restrain the photograph's action, while the progression from...
...Rubenstein can be likened to the work of Wayne Thiebaud, or an oil-and-wax painting by David Ortins seems like a disciplined Franz Kline. Yet this exhibit demonstrates that this is precisely not the point; the works are to be judged on their own terms, within their own visual languages. If anything, the most liberating aspect of the show is its unfamiliarity. It is the experience of thinking and seeing on our feet. It is the desire, finally, that John H. Updike '54 describes in his short story, "Museums and Women": "What we seek in museums is the opposite...
...Visual Memoirs is on display through March 12. The Rose is in Waltham, at 415 South St. To get there, take the Fitchburg line of the MBTA commuter rail from Porter Square to Brandeis/Roberts. The Rose is open Tue. through Sun., 12 to 5 p.m. and Thu., 12 to 9 p.m. Admission is free...