Deborah Kelly and Martha Rosler

On Saturday night, I attended the opening reception of my friend and fellow fleas member Martha Rosler at Mitchell-Innes & Nash . Although I couldn't stay for too long, I was impressed by Martha's exhibition, Great Power. It included a batch of new anti-war photomontages, binders with newspaper clippings about the current war in Iraq, a huge moving prosthetic leg, a dance arcade game, and a turnstile at the entrance. The latter, prevented me -- at first -- to enter the exhibition, because I had no cash on me. Eventually, I had to beg for a quarter at the front desk. Martha's "show-and-tell" in the online edition of the New York Times (09/05/08): Cut and Paste.

Another friend of mine and member of the fleas, Deborah Kelly, has been invited to bring her Beware of the God project to the Singapore Biennale 2008. Deborah's work is incredibly smart and engaging, or as a press release from the Biennale states, "watch out for Deborah Kelly’s transient projection, Beware of the God, which demands that we ponder our realities and beliefs while encountering a moment of wonder and discovery."