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JUNE 4, 2009 | 8PM-10PM
MELISSA MANNING: OUT THERE AT THE STANDARD, HOLLYWOOD
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Melissa Manning expands on her "Out There" series of photographs to manifest the weathered mysteries of rural desert life, tumbleweeds and all, in the lobby of The Standard, Hollywood. The opening event is Thursday, June 4.
The hotel, located on the Sunset Strip, is known for its chic turn on the retro motor lodge, as well as for one voyeuristic feature in particular: the glass box behind the front desk, where a model solitarily situates herself while the activity of the hotel swirls around outside. For the "Out There" installation, Manning translates the richness documented in the two-dimensional world of a photograph into the real space of the box, complete with artifacts, which will then be inhabited.
As an extension of Manning's "Out There" photographic series that began six years ago, the latest project was inspired by observation, documentation, and scavenging from "many trips to the desert."
"You notice how things change: furniture moves around, paintball marks appear, burn piles are found, and a burned desert floor changes into a field overgrown with future tumbleweeds that will eventually die and move on," says Manning. "I guess it's the cycle of life combined with the harsh conditions and wide open expanses that I am attracted to, where structures and possessions are abandoned and forgotten, left to degrade and to be scavenged by the elements, the wild life, and the characters that inhabit the desert."
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