Setting out on a journey in search of the anthropologically perfect native, Stuart Hawkins appears in her video piece "Souvenir" (2006). Enduring hardship and glory as her tourist character takes to the trail, she eventually discovers a clue that might uncover an indigenous being untouched by the modern world. However, the more she seeks out notions of pure cultural authenticity, the more they diminish with each grasp.
To read the New York Times's art critic Roberta Smith on Stuart Hawkins click here.
And for a review of her work by Your Gallery magazine contributor Jerry Saltz click here.
Stuart Hawkins is represented by the Zach Feuer Gallery in New York. In May she has a solo show at Quality Pictures Contemporary Art in Portland, Oregon and in August her work will be included in a group show, along with Doug Aitken, Bas Jan Ader and Patty Chang, at The University of Southern Florida Contemporary Art Museum.
Click here to watch Stuart Hawkins' video 'Souvenir'.
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