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ARTCAT



Sean Hemmerle: Where Lines Are Drawn

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Front Room Gallery
147 Roebling Street, 718-782-2556
Williamburg
March 11 - April 2, 2006
Reception: Saturday, March 11, 7 - 11 PM
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Hemmerle’s photographs depict political situations that are remarkably tangible—the sad and complex stories embodied. In these solitary, forsaken landscapes the streets are often dead ends marked by a cul-de-sac, a massive and improbable wall bisecting the street and blocking our visu al line, it is an alien presence which has grudgingly become accepted into its surroundings.

In each of these places Hemmerel’s photos show the physical manifestation of ideological differences and the political desperation, that once deemed intractable, are made concrete and expressed through the architecture of walls and barriers. Through Hemmerle’s photographs it becomes apparent that each place, while unique, shares a common malady. These are similar microcosms of societies at loggerheads, with temporary societal band-aids erected over larger cultural divides. By photographing international zones of contention he shows the landscape of discord, and the architecture erected for this specific division.

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