RAMI GEORGE

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RAMI GEORGE

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brotherly love, sisterly affection

Plywood, wood, plastic buckets, poured concrete, black and white house paint, reproduced archival material, projected video, concrete blocks, free Risograph poster

Installation, 2019

Exhibited in Analogous to Our Own

Icebox Project Space

Organized by Sara O'Keeffe

Material sourced from John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives; with gratitude to John Anderies

Production assistance from Willie Udell

Photos by Gordon Stillman

Untitled (Dr. Henry Anonymous)[A black and white photo of a seated man speaking into a microphone. He has thick black hair, and wears a tuxedo and pale mask with skin that looks like melting rubber or whipped cream.]

Untitled (John E. Fryer)[A vertical white sign affixed to a two-by-four and with bold, black serif writing reads "Thank you, Dr. Robinson. I am a homosexual. I am a psychiatrist. I, like most of you in this room am a member of the A.P.A., and am proud of that membership. However, tonight, I am, insofar as it is possible, a we."]

[An installation view of three vertical white signs with black font planted in white buckets, disassembled white police barricades leaning in the corner, black and white mugshots and portraits leaning against the wall, and a stack of concrete blocks holding a mini projector projecting onto the wall.]

Left: Untitled (Susan Edith Saxe)Middle: Untitled (Dear Drum: D.E., New York)Right: Untitled (Kiyoshi Kuromiya)[In a white room, three vertical white signs with black serif font and affixed to two-by-fours face slightly different directions. Paragraphs of text address the use of chemical weapons by the government, and the speaker's love for their sisters, the women of the world.]

Untitled (Dear Drum: D.E., New York)[A vertical white sign with black serif font and affixed to a two-by-four reads "I, too, was not served at Dewey's which made my first weekend unhappy, even embarrassing. Four girls and I had just come from services at church, planning to eat breakfast. None of us had ever been to Philly before but were told: 'Don't you remember last night? I told you then we don't serve you people here.'"]

Untitled (Donna Mae Stemmer)[Two concrete blocks stacked vertically by a gallery wall with a small projector projecting a bluish image of a person with big hair and a voluminous skirt. Unframed photos lean against the wall, to the right of the projection.]

Left: Untitled (Clark Polak)Middle: Untitled (Ms. Saxe)Right: Untitled (Gay Dealer)[A row of unframed black and white images leaning against a gallery wall, including a mugshot of Clark Philip Polak; a portrait of Susan Edith Saxe, a smiling white woman in a peacoat and large glasses; and a portrait of Kiyoshi Kuromiya, an Asian man with a mustache and shoulder length hair, embracing a smirking Black man with medium length hair below the text "GAY DEALER" and above text that reads "AN ARMY OF LOVERS CANNOT LOSE!"]

Left: Untitled (Barricades)Right: Untitled (Phila Demonstrations 1990s)[A disassembled white police barricade leaning in the corner of a white gallery. A small, black and white flyer addressing police violence in Philadelphia hangs on one wall near the edge of the frame.]

Untitled (Phila Demonstrations 1990s)[A small, creased, black and white newsprint scan of police and protestors pushing and shoving on either side of a barricade under the words "Police violence erupts in Philly".]

Untitled (After Kiyoshi)[A small wooden shelf on a gallery wall holds a black and white poster with the image of a white man holding and smirking at a burning draft card. Under the photo, bold, all-caps text reads "FUCK THE DRAFT".]

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