YOU BECAUSE FREE INSTANTLY NEW
Comissioned by Pro Arts
Oakland, CA
2014
The commissioned installation YOU BECAUSE FREE INTANTLY NEW (2014) investigates the integration of militaristic technologies and methods into the intimacies of everyday civilian life.
"Like the content it addresses, Holberton’s work is surprisingly subtle and strategic in its execution. The exhibition’s carefully curated objects—flowing ponchos, perfume bottles, and digitally rendered wallpaper—reference our everyday lives with a comfortable familiarity. With time, the initial ease one might feel dissipates as the camouflaged works reveal themselves: video masked as reality, war marketed as fashion, and an installation that brands gallery-goers not as passive recipients of the works’ messages, but rather as active participants, implicated by their very presence in the space."
