I AM THE RESURRECTION

May 8th-June 11th, 2004

Opening reception: Saturday, May 8th @ 8 pm

The world sucks, adults suck, having a job sucks,
getting taxes shaved off your wages sucks, picking up
overtime sucks, your buildings suck, your music sucks,
your movies suck—you had a chance and you blew it.
Now, we’re taking everything back. Satan and suicide
and despondency, irreverence and beauty—they’re all
ours now, and we shine whenever we do our own thing
with them; we grow luminous and necessary. We’re just
dying to die—that’s how we take our lives back. We cut
ourselves, we become animals, we scribble over your
album covers, we highjack your copy machines, we paint
our faces, we give importance to things—like our
sadness—that you want to do away with, we stick your
buildings in the deepest caverns of our wicked minds.
We are your redemption, the silver lining on the pile
of wreckage that are all your mistakes.
i am the resurrection brings together work by four
artists that have set up shop at the crossroads of
adolescence, reclamation and doom. Hailing from the
deep recesses of the Midwest, Jay Heikes brings
something of a homebody’s obsessive meditation on rock
stars, decay, fandom. From New York City, Rachel Howe
brings us the mixture of sadness and defiance that
threads through American teenagedom. Also from New
York, Ian Cooper lets desire run unregulated in his
reverential investigations of Goth girls. From Miami,
Daniel Ashram buries the standing symbols of
architectural modernity into the blackest caves of an
adolescent will to reclaim the world.
In the project room: Coming out of the
shadows, the vandals of the Miami-based collective
Guerilla Tactics will turn the project room into their
clubhouse/headquarters. In the process, they may
provide some insight as to why the toxicity of spray
paint fumes is so similar to that of disaffection and
dissent.

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LOCUST PROJECTS is sponsored, in part, by The Dade
Community Foundation with support of The Miami-Dade
County Dept of Cultural Affairs, The Cultural Affairs
Council, The Mayor, and The Miami-Dade Board of County
Commissioners.