Annette Weintraub
Mirage, 2001
Annette Weintraub explores the architecture and socio-cultural meanings of place by developing new structures that incorporate simultaneous, multiple narratives (through image, text and sound components) in virtual space. Mirage considers the dissonance between the romantic expectations of travel and the realities of experience. Based on a journey to Morocco, Mirage examines the assumptions underlying leisure travel to an "exotic" location, and the resulting distortion of reality engendered by romantic expectation. Using sound and narrative to animate a series of still images, the project embeds ostensibly neutral "tourist" photos with contradictory narratives to expose a complex of economic, social, historical and psychological realities.


Annette Weintraub’s Mirage is a CEPA Gallery commission. Courtesy of the artist.

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Annette Weintraub