tank.tv dedicates its July exhibition to the work of American artist Lisa Oppenheim (New York, 1975). Oppenheim, who was awarded the Illy prize in 2007, works mainly with appropriated filmic and photographic material that range from archival photographs, daguerrotypes or pictures dowloaded from the internet, which she uses to create unconventional associations to question the standard representational value of media. The works selected for this exhibition include her new piece Yule Log (2009), E-M-P-I-R-E (2008), No Closer to the Source (July 20,1969) (2008), The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else (2007) and Story, Study, Print (2005)
"Lisa Oppenheim’s work constitutes an archaeology of visual culture. She brings the hidden, under-appreciated and repressed into view, and in the process reveals an ordering of things that goes beyond our commonplace responses. Her work ranges from damaged negatives from early 20th century news stories, personal photographs posted on ‘Flicker’ by soldiers serving in Iraq through to the constellation of the day and location of famous historical media stories." Press Release from ‘The Making of Americans’ at STORE 2008