June 2010 in the Backspace

Carol Saft: My Brother Todd

• June 2 – 26, 2010

• Opening reception:
  Thursday, March 3, 6–8pm

Blurring the line between portraiture and social document, the work constructs a view of family that refuses simple classifications of function and dysfunction. Like video 'dispatches' from the suburban frontlines, the fantasy roles Todd enacts explore the epic side of safety in an otherwise banal world of house alarms and gated developments. Todd is a sort of Everyman: post-Industrial, post 9-11, post-Post-Modern, and there are few heroic moments in such a life as Todd himself asserts, "I am just a man trapped in a Man's body."