museum of new art - october 2, 2010is Love
new work by Amanda Faye Cain
opening at
Detroit MONA
@
The Russell Industrial Center
1600 Clay Street
Detroit - Bldg. 2, 3rd Floor
reception: Saturday, October 2
from 6-10pm
http://www.detroitmona.com/
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 yearsof 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
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.
reception: Saturday, October 2
from 6-10pm
http://www.detroitmona.com/
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 yearsof 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
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.
