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1 week agoEva Lake: Free Art Opening Reception (Foreign Cinema)
Eva Lake's collages merge art-historical and pop-culture imagery to challenge gendered beauty norms and rewrite historical visual narratives.
Protagonist Edna Pontellier, heartbroken and hopeless, swims out into the Gulf of Mexico until her body tires and the water swallows her up. The act is impossibly sad, but it also feels as if it's not about itself. Or rather, it expresses something about the act, choice, of suicide that so often remains out of focus: how hard our world is to live in.