Creative Catalyst fellow Bridget Rountree presents her solo exhibition “Valuable Content” at Helmuth Projects.

A mixed media art exhibition juxtaposing social, political, and art historical imagery as a way to question perceived value and generate discussions of content within a visual language. Challenging dualistic representations of the savior and saved, winner and loser, victim and rescuer to query the ideas and philosophies that lead to hierarchical structures of thought. A simultaneity of perspectives occur by reading one image through the other, potentially opening a new space between what is considered to be known and unknown. Exploring found imagery as a way to revitalize, reorganize, and reveal the possibility of new relationships amidst previously defined histories.

The artist inquires into the way visual and physical forms and patterns become representative of what we know of ourselves, the relationship between the self, the objectified, and nature. Looking at how objects and images suggest how we think, what we believe, and how we live. The works look at the everyday world with the idea that we are not only passively interacting with the environment; we are actually actively thinking it.