Our Coming Was Expected

Installation shots of my thesis exhibition, “Our Coming Was Expected,” at Art Center in February 2010. The title references a passage from the second of Walter Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History.

“There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply. Historical materialists are aware of that.”