Exposure: Matt Keegan, Katie Paterson and Heather Rasmussen
The Art Institute of Chicago
September 3, 2011 - March 4, 2012
Gallery 188
This continuing series in the Department of Photography showcases the Art Institute’s commitment to collecting and exhibiting the most dynamic new work by emerging artists. The fourth installment in the series explores the diverse approaches to photography in work by Matt Keegan, Katie Paterson, and Heather Rasmussen. Heather Rasmussen’s attraction to bold and colorful international shipping containers led her to recreate these objects in miniature, crafting them by hand from colored cardstock. In order to replicate actual shipping container accidents, she arranges her fragile sculptures and photographs the compositions. Although her images and titles appropriate the details of real accidents, Rasmussen’s intermediary sculptures speak more to the underlying fragility of global supply and demand.
