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Too Good to be True

  • Poor Teddy
  • Angels Listening
  • Beyond the Hedges
  • Body Armor
  • Happy Hour
  • Narcissus
  • Neons
  • Performance
  • Power and Burden of Beauty
  • Ready Mades
  • Too Good To Be True
  • Video Installation
  • Too Good to Be True explores off-camera realities through pointedly cinematic scenes. The materiality of the works is spare and...
    Too Good to Be True explores off-camera realities through pointedly cinematic scenes. The materiality of the works is spare and severely controlled, and the formats almost confining. By honing in on the ceaseless pressure to look impossibly good, Too Good To Be True lays bare the consequences of our national obsession with personal beauty -its trappings, its excesses, its corrosive power and cultural pervasiveness.
    • Rachel Lee Hovnanian, No Prenup, 2010
      Rachel Lee Hovnanian, No Prenup, 2010
    • Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Beauty and the Doughnuts, 2010
      Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Beauty and the Doughnuts, 2010
    • Rachel Lee Hovnanian, The Collector (Large), 2010
      Rachel Lee Hovnanian, The Collector (Large), 2010
    • Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Pots and Pans, 2010
      Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Pots and Pans, 2010
    • Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Blood Stain Remover, 2010
      Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Blood Stain Remover, 2010
    • Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Dirty Laundry Secrets, 2010
      Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Dirty Laundry Secrets, 2010

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