Rec-elections (Now more than ever.)
2016
site-specific vinyl text installation
68.5 x 732 inches
Installation view, Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
Rec-elections (Now more than ever.) is a reimagining of Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign slogan. This site-specific installation at Abrons Art Center, NY employs Nixon’s campaign slogan “Now more than ever.” in service of resistance against the campaign of Donald Trump who’s campaign promises eerily echo the law & order policies of Nixon’s 1972 campaign.
Rec-elections is an ongoing project (2012-) which unpacks and critiques the weaponization of nostalgia and slogans used within historical American presidential campaign posters. The etymology of the word slogan derives from Gaelic origins and effectively means “battle cry”. Sourced from online auction sites such as eBay, I alter and reimagine, these presidential campaign posters, banners, and flags and reinsert them back into the public realm where they are utilized in, site-specific interventions and performances, prints, flags and installations.
Within this framework, works from the Rec-elections project resurrect the language of bygone slogans to reveal the fallacy of a romanticized American myth of equality, justice, and prosperity for all.