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Remember the Future – Forget the Past (Remember the Past – Forget the Future)

Cascade Paragon Gallery

Contemporary Stratigraphy

Liz Ensz, Oquirrh Range (pre-Kennecott topology), 2018, 2-weft, double weave (double width) digitally designed, hand woven Jacquard cloth, hand dyed canvas, 8’ x 13’

by Liz Ensz

  • Dates: June 15 – July 28, 2018
  • Gallery hours: Wednesday – Friday 12-7pm, Saturday 12-5pm

Paragon Arts Gallery at PCC Cascade presents Remember the Future – Forget the Past (Remember the Past – Forget the Future) by Liz Ensz. Employing the commemorative properties of textiles and metals and combining their contradictory and complementary properties of ephemerality and permanence, Ensz questions what we, as a culture, choose to remember, and what we choose to forget.

Remember the Future – Forget the Past (Remember the Past – Forget the Future) ruminates on the human impulse to imagine our permanence through self-celebrating monuments and be simultaneously invested in capitalist theology and a self-destructive culture of disposability.