21C--Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY

I went to Louisville this weekend on vacation. While there, I visited 21C Museum Hotel. It is a 90-room boutique hotel that has been renovated to include over 5000 feet of exhibition space dedicated solely to 21st century art.

There is a really cool, pretty large exhibition of Simen Johan titled "Until the Kingdom Comes." Though a Biblical reference, the series of photographs are not meant to be seen as religious, but rather are meant to be open statements that allude to the final resolution of existence and what that might mean for each individual. Interesting play on fantasy and reality. The images really challenge the viewer to make some concise conclusions, and may be a little overwhelming for the less intellectually stimulated. Not that the visual dialogue is too complex to interpret, just that it requires a stretch of critical thinking mixed in with a bit of imagination.

 Untitled #135, 2005

Untitled #133, 2005