In this show curated by Chuck Mobley and Emma Tramposch, three artists who make use of and manipulate vernacular images from family scrapbooks and home movies exert control over the perception of memory in both literal and metaphorical ways.

San Francisco artist Liz Steketee raids the family album in order to mend familial rifts. She brings together long estranged relatives through manipulated snapshots that disrupt chronological narratives. Fashioned with the best intentions, Steketee¹s method also exudes a slightly sinister and authoritarian tone leaving one wondering if perhaps it might be best to let sleeping dogs lie.

Berlin-based artist Pablo Pijnappel offers a blunt recounting of his family's secret history in a 9-minute video entitled 1921-1977, 1979-2002.
In it, Super 8 footage shot by his grandfather is accompanied by Pijnappel's personal narration and subtitles that unearth family infidelities, scandals and other unsettling revelations.

Los Angeles artist Melanie Willhide collages the front and back sides of photographs, revealing both simultaneously, in her piece Sleeping Beauties (The Box Under the Bed). Glue stains, fingerprints and handwritten scrawls combine with the partially revealed, aging images to hint at private histories long secreted away.

WHEN:
April 3 ­ May 24, 2008
Opening Reception: April 3 from 5-8 p.m.

HOURS:
Tuesdays ­ Saturdays 12 - 5 p.m.

WHERE:
SF Camerawork, 657 Mission St., Second Floor, San Francisco

ADMISSION:
$5.00; $2.00 for students and seniors; free to Camerawork members

INFORMATION:
www.sfcamerawork.org or 415.512.2020