Sabrina Raaf at Klein Art Works.

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  • Author(s): Snodgrass, Susan
  • Source:
    Art in America. Mar2004, Vol. 92 Issue 3, p135-136. 2p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Photography exhibitions; Multimedia (Art); Raaf, Sabrina; Photographers; Science fiction
    • Subject Terms:
      Chicago (Ill.); Illinois; United States
    • Abstract:
      A basic preoccupation of science fiction is the often troubled relationship between humanity and other life-forms and, by extension, the role played by technology in the struggle for power and control. Similar concerns engage photographer Sabrina Raaf, whose photographs and multimedia installations, exhibited at Klien Art Works in Chicago, Illinois collectively titled "Roving," fuse fantasy and technological innovation to comment on systems of mobility, the body and paranoia. Raaf's installations are impressive for their ambition and technological savvy, as well as for her sensitivity to her materials, however unconventional. Her photographs depict strange scenarios, staged encounters that mix live actors with fabricated creatures.