Shuli Hallak, Cargo
Moti Hasson Gallery
Chelsea
535 West 25th Street, 212-268-4444
May 8 - June 29, 2008
Opening: Thursday, May 8, 6 - 8PM
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Shuli Hallak, CSAV Chicago, 2005, C-print, 50 × 60 inches. Courtesy of Moti Hasson Gallery.Shuli Hallak's recent photographs document cargo in its state of transit between production and consumption. Almost every manufactured product humans consume spends time in a shipping container, yet consumers remain largely unaware of the process by which goods are actually transported. Hallak describes a cargo ship as a "sublime, moving city" and finds beauty in the fundamental necessity of the shipping industry, in the romance of travel over sea, and in the raw, precise, purely functional architecture of ports. In "Cargo," Hallak unveils an essential stage in the delivery of goods from manufacturer to consumer and invites viewers to share in her process of discovery and in her fascination with what she finds.