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Dead Deer by Robin Schwartz

We recently released two long-awaited editions by photographer Amy Stein. Capturing Halloween portraits of the trickiest treaters of Harlem, Amy’s work exposes us to strange, beautiful scenes in the not-quite-everyday world. We’re proud to announce the opening of her first curatorial project, titled Things Fall Apart, this Friday, November 19th at pool gallery in Berlin. The exhibition features the work of an amazing all-star cast of female photographers, including Hot Shot Juliana Beasley!

pool gallery has previously exhibited works from Amy's Domesticated and Halloween in Harlem series, in the 2008 exhibition, New American Fables.

pool gallery writes of the THINGS FALL APART:

THINGS FALL APART, curated by American photographer and pool gallery artist Amy Stein, presents us with a wise, yet rather distressing, understanding. It is a coming to terms with our collective sentence, the hand we, humans, were dealt; it is the realization that, at the end of the proverbial day, the chaos prevails.

Stein has selected the works of seven American female photographers; works that approach this grand conflict from a humanistic and personal standpoint. These artists dissect the human desire to construct our systems of order, and accentuate the inevitable disillusionment when those very systems collapse. The works are more than a record of decay – they are, rather, an examination of loss, as the transition from the ephemeral to the immutable reveals a cruel affirmation of our temporal existence.

Congratulations to both Amy and the photographers she selected for the exhibition!

Things Fall Apart
Opening reception: Friday, November 19
Exhibition dates: November 20-January 15, 2011
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-6
pool gallery, Tucholskystraße 38, Berlin, Germany