RACHEL HOVNANIAN Too Good To Be True
21 March - 15 April 2012
The Cat Street Gallery is delighted to announce the first solo show in Asia by American artist Rachel Hovnanian. Her latest exhibition, entitled Too Good To Be True presents a kind of 'pilgrim's progress' in which Hovnanian's iconic Beauty Queen Totem makes her way in the world, moving from one stage of beauty-based thralldom to another. As both a pop culture embodiment of ideal beauty and a prize for achieving it, we see the Beauty Queen disciplining herself to endure the privations of beauty like an athlete in training; on the career track, facing a different kind of competition than on the runway; and at home, ambushed by the realities of marriage and domesticity.
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