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When A Rose is Not a Rose

Exhibition: 25 Oct 2011 – 3 Dec 2011

When A Rose is Not a Rose
Claudia Hart, Still Life With Funyun 2011, Archival inkjet print on photo rag, 42.75 x 53.25 in / 108.6 x 135.3 cm, framed, Edition of 3, 1 AP

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce a second solo exhibition with the Chicago-based artist Claudia Hart. When A Rose is Not a Rose, Hart’s reflection on the ubiquitous Gertrude Stein poem from 1913, presents the artist’s recent explorations on her own denial of death. The exhibition’s muted wall text , “When this you see remember me”, also quotes the title of W.G. Roger’s biography on Stein, functioning as a cold reminder of mortality, a memento mori.