museum of new art - october 2, 2010

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 aren’t hiding anything threatening, but we feel threatened by love,
or, by the opportunity to heal.
We’re defensive, we want to feel safe, but we’ve been hurt -
whether it was by our parents, friends, past lovers, or 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 …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 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.

This show is:
ten years worth of "work",
about a personal struggle with searching for and finding what "is love",
through the eyes of a girl who thought that having countless lovers would fill a void,
of Western, sociological context,
and contains:
Original, contextual prints of photographs big and small, snapshots, and self-portraits.
Piles of letters, journals, and drawings.
Artifacts from lovers.
Emails, online journal entries, text message print-outs, and poems.
Audio recordings of the past as well as songs written by past lovers.
A performance.

- 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