Exhibition Label
Miscellaneous History
2000


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Throughout her career, Liz Magor has worked with sculpture and photography to address issues of place, refuge, shelter and containment (both physical and emotional). In her recent work, such as Deep Woods Portfolio, she has explored pioneer cabins and wilderness fantasies. This series of photographs depicts the decaying remnants of shelters alluding to homesteaders, hippies and hermits who may have inhabited them. Choosing these abandoned structures, that dissolve into the wilderness around them, Magor plays with the contradiction of urban notions about rustic places—living in the woods is both a childhood fantasy of a natural hideout, but also the last resort of fugitives and social outcasts.