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Daniel Bejar / Get Lost!
“Get Lost!” project restores NYC’s Metropolitan Transit Authority’s subway maps, signs and place names, to what they may have geographically looked and sounded like prior to colonial intervention in 1609. Documented through photography, these restorations based on 18th century cartography and toponymy erase 400 years of accumulated history, place names, neighborhoods, and subway lines, returning Mannahatta to it’s original green spaces, streams, ponds, and shores the Lenni Lenape Indians once inhabited. Returned and inserted back into the subway system in guerrilla fashion, these restorations provide viewers a brief window into another time inviting them to get lost in time and space and re-discover the greatest city in the world.

October 1-10
On subway sinage throughout the 1st Avenue, 3rd Avenue, 6th Avenue, 8th Avenue and Union Square subway stations along 14th Street.

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Daniel Bejar was born in the Bronx, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His multi-media practice utilizes intervention, sculpture, and photography to appropriate historical residue as strategy to evoke the past into the present while posing critical questions. Bejar received his BFA from the Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL and an MFA from the State University of New York, New Paltz in 2007. In 2011 Bejar was selected to Smack Mellon’s Hot Picks program, and recently completed a residency at SOMA, Mexico City D.F., and has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, LMCC Swing Space Program, and the AIM Program at the Bronx Museum of Art, NY. Bejar’s work has been exhibited internationally, with recent venues including “The (S) Files Bienal 2011”, El Museo Del Barrio, NY, University of New Haven, CT; Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany; and Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.

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