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Installation grabs attention with eye-popping color

Fake fur, lots of color and photograms are on display at the Union’s Art Gallery. The art installation ‘Ev’ry Night About This Time’ was created by Genevieve Waller who is a doctoral student in the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester and is on display until tomorrow. Waller took a unique approach to creating this exhibit. ‘For this exhibition, I wanted to alter the gallery space in the manner of an interior decorator,’ she said. She accomplished this by covering the walls of the gallery in fake fur. Waller used the fake fur as a campy aesthetic, which is something that she draws on in her work as an artist, she said. ‘The bright fur on the walls brought me in, but I liked the bigger mirror-like things with the fabric,’ sophomore Kristine Kohler said. The mirrors that looked like they had fabric in them were in fact photograms, the basis of the entire installation. Photograms are photographs created by placing objects on photographic paper, exposing the ensemble to light and processing the paper in photographic chemistry. There are photograms of small objects, like paper clips and pins, as well as larger objects. The title of the installation comes from a 1943 song by The Ink Spots, who were an African-American musical group. The song’s lyrics and performance are about lost love and longing, and this is something that is important to making photograms because a sort of loss occurs when one is made, Waller said. ‘The object that was once there, touching the photographic paper is gone and what is left is kind of trace image, like a footprint,’ she said. The color and the installation was a bit of a sensory overload for one student. ‘It’s the most intense installation they’ve had. It’s over the top intense,’ senior Mark Gorey said.

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