Museum of Contemporary Photography
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Art: Photography
Kahn & Selesnick: The Apollo Prophecies and Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea
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Kahn & Selesnick, Stillborn, 2010
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Jan 14, 2011 – Apr 3, 2011
Mondays–Wednesdays (10am–5pm)
Thursdays (10am–8pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (10am–5pm)
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“Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick reimagine the Apollo moon landing as having been predated by a pair of decadent turn-of-the-century men in The Apollo Prophesies and create a narrative about two women exploring the architecture of lost civilizations on Mars in Mars Adrift on the Hourglass Sea. Both series of deceptively whimsical but provocative visual stories are comprised of constructed photographs that are both jarring and dreamlike. Ultimately the artists utilize the science-fiction tropes of postmodernism to explore our accepted relationships to history, power, and national identity.”
Monica Westin, Flavorpill
Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick have been spinning wild visual tales together for more than 20 years. Their practice involves dreaming up complex narratives based on real historical events and injecting them with a wry sense of humor. Their Apollo Prophecies (2004) project is based on a reinterpretation of the first world event of historical significance that the two men remember clearly. In their version of the moon landing, the 1960s astronauts arrive on the moon only to discover that someone has beat them there, in this case Edwardian dandies who arrived circa 1905. Mars (2010) features two female protagonists wandering aimlessly in a bizarre Martian landscape. Again, someone has been there before them, and they encounter detritus from the mysteriously vacated civilization.
