Marginal Utility in Artforum

20 Feb 2012

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Sharon Hayes, From in the Near Future, 2005. Slide Projection.

Marginal Utility's Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent, supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, was featured on Artforum's website during the exhibition's run in the winter of 2012.

Katherine Rochester wrote that the show brought "together five artists who shrewdly deconstruct the language of revolt." She pointed to a line recited in a work by Sharon Hayes, in which the artists says that "there is no prison in any world into which love cannot force an entrance." Read more >

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