Staycation 
Solo exhibition at Mark Wolfe Contemporary in San Francisco, CA 
January 9 – February 27, 2015

With Staycation, Thibault expands on her earlier explications of materialism, artifice, and the relationship between objects and power in the context of 19th Century French antiques. The show responds to the visual ubiquity of tie-dye patterns, peace signs, and other motifs of hippie iconography in the physical space of her Haight-Ashbury neighborhood on the one hand, and of emojis, emoticons, logos, and other motifs of social media in the networked virtual space that many view as the inevitable outcome of San Francisco’s hippie ethos of the 1960s.

Fifty years ago, a generation of twenty-somethings flocked to San Francisco to partake in a counter-cultural revolution fueled by sex, drugs, and political idealism. Staycation, titled from the idea of temporarily checking out of reality without actually going anywhere, compels the viewer to consider whether today’s current techno-cultural revolution in San Francisco, where the “we’re changing the world” mantra is as omnipresent as it was in 1968, and to ask what, if anything, is different?

Staycation Press Release

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