Friday, May 24, 2013

Jason Lazarus: Too Hard to Keep (Syracuse)
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

In 2010, Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus initiated a growing archive of photos deemed "too hard to keep." "Too Hard to Keep" is a place for photographs, photo-objects, and even digital files to exist when they are too difficult to hold on to, yet too meaningful to destroy. Participants have dictated whether the photographs submitted to the archive may be shown freely with other pieces of the archive, or if they are only to be displayed face down, adding to the charged significance of each object. Out of this expanding collection site-specific installations occur. With "Too Hard to Keep" in Syracuse, Lazarus shares a slice of the larger archive alongside anonymous local submissions in a carefully considered installation.

Interested in submitting to the T.H.T.K. archive? Drop off your print anonymously in the drop box located at Light Work during the length of the exhibition.

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