A Failed Attempt to Understand the Universe: Photographs by Robert Sulkin

Photographs by Robert Sulkin

Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Tuesday, March 26, 7:30pm

History, philosophy, biology, and a thorough mastery of photographical processes are just a few of the ingredients that make Robert Sulkin’s perfectly eerie photography so fascinating. There are references to popular culture, vignettes that everybody can relate to. But the message is an ominous one. Are we doomed? Are we intellectuals, or are we animals? With a sincere dose of Duchampian sensibility, and the contents of Victorian curiosity cabinets, what would Dr. Freud say?