BRIDGET ROUNTREE | VALUABLE CONTENT /  by Margaret Hernandez

Valuable Content Juxtaposes social, political and art historical imagery as to question precieved value and generate discussion of content within a visual language. The works look at the everyday world wit the idea that we are not only passively intreating with the environment; we are actually actively thinking it. By challenging dualist representations of the savor and saved, winner and loser, victim and rescuer, the artist seeks to query the ideas and philospies that lead to hierarchal structures of thought. A simultaneity of perspectives occur by reading one image through the other, opening up a new space between what is considered to be known, and what remains unknown. Portraits are dissociated from their original context, by which the system in which they normally function is brought into question. Exploring found imagery becomes a way to revitalize, reorganize and revel the possibility of new relationships among previously defined histories.