Julia M.Hechtman

Show ran from 6/1/2000 to 6/24/2000

Twenty Dollars, video

In this video piece, Hechtman confronts issues of expectation and excitement as brought about by the thousands of visual images the average American citizen is exposed to everyday from popular media. These images, which end up governing our daily lives, suggest that success and the possession of material goods are equivalent to happiness, but which it does not achieve.