A Reading Room for Shedding Light: Pamela Vander Zwan

If you're coming to A Reading Room for Shedding Light tonight

If you're thinking of coming by tonight:
The reception will start at 6pm, and the artist's talk starts at 7pm.

A Reading Room for Shedding Light: Pamela Vander Zwan
January 29 – March 29, 2009
Main Library, 2nd floor exhibition space
101 W. Flagler St, Miami - http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://305.375.2665
Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, January 29, 6 – 8:30pm

In her work, Pamela Vander Zwan looks at how our collective histories have shaped our society with a focus on the social and political landscape of our time. A Reading Room is a site-specific work adapted for Main Library. In it, Vander Zwan creates a reading room environment that pairs Braille and visual text with photographs of blindfolded people in situations that demand the use of sight or adaptation to a lack of sight. The reading room also includes Braille versions of pivotal documents and books in U.S. history. By putting the viewer into a situation in which sight does not automatically equal awareness, she asks vital questions about participation in democratic society.

To find more about exhibitions and programs coming up this month, check out http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://mdpls.org%2Fnews%2Fexhibitions%2Fexhibitions.asp.