Heterotopias:Contested, Represented, Inverted

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featuring works by: Annie Creswell, Katie Hargrave, and Heath Schultz.

Opening reception Tuesday, April 10 from 6-9pm
Open hours April 10-15 6-9pm.

There are, probably in every culture, in every civilization, real places - places that do exist and that are formed in the very founding of society - which are something like counter-sites, a kind of effectively enacted utopia in which the real sites, all the other real sites that can be found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and inverted. Places of this kind
are outside of all places, even though it may be possible to indicate their location in reality. Because these places are absolutely different from all the sites that they reflect and speak about, I shall call them, by way of contrast to utopias, heterotopias. - Michel Foucault

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