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Faketure Show Postcard

The Postcard for the Faketure Exhibition at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.
November 1- December 2, 2005.

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"Faketure", defined

“Faketure” is the conflation of artifice and nature. This art exhibition is about setting up a dialogue between these two ideas. Nature can be thought of as a construct of language and society, so essentially it is artifice, or “fake”. It is only there because we allow it to be there; we will the nature of “Nature”.

The idea of faketure raises many questions: How do we manipulate nature to our needs? Why do we need it? Why are we so detached from it physically? Why are we so attached to it psychologically? What do we have to learn about ourselves by how we use/abuse/confuse nature?

Art is a medium by which to address and experience Nature; a perspective, modeled by the numerous artists who use it. The artists of this show were chosen for the diverse interactions, uses, and definitions of nature/faketure in their work. Humanity and Nature are not mutually exclusive entities. They are richly intertwined. We use Nature as a mirror through which to view our selves in the context of our world. Faketure is a reflection in that mirror.
--Gabriel Bizen Akagawa, 2005

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