Hindsight is Always 20/20
"Hindsight is Always 20/20" is a one-person exhibition by R. Luke DuBois. DuBois presents these issues through simple prints, but in a very unique way. After his visit at the University of California Santa Barbara to work on the American Presidency Project, DuBois became more interested on the presidency issues and took the subject even further by focusing on State of the Union address. As a result from his research, DuBois came up with an exhibition that depicts the issues that the leaders and the public had to face with and how both the leaders and the public see these issues at the given time.
The exhibition was organized through presidency orders from the first president of the United States, George Washington all the way to George W Bush who had just recently finished his term. The exhibition comprised of forty-one frames due to the number of the presidents that the United States has so far. The sixty-six words that were commonly used during each presidency term were carefully chosen and listed within each wood frames in a Snellen test format.
The exhibition depicts through both theme and idea. The theme of this exhibition is on the issues that each president had to face with during their regime. The theme of this exhibition allowed DuBois to address the issues that United States had to deal with more explicitly and also allowed us the viewers to see how these issues at the given time being viewed by both leaders and public.
The layouts of the forty-one pieces are the same throughout, however among all of these forty-one pieces, the description about the president Richard M. Nixon tended to catch my eyes the most. I always had a negative thought about him, as he was the one who made war more possible to a few countries in Southeast Asia. It was interesting for me that DuBois’s exhibition helped me learn more about the United States and even more about president Nixson on some of positive parts and some issues that he had to deal with during his presidency. Words like “Truly�, “Environment Vision�, and “Clean initiative Door guest priorities� was largely bolded on his piece. By just seeing these words, I began to question myself if Nixon all that bad after all.
As far as the layout and the prints that DuBois used to presents these issues, I found myself enjoy his exhibition due to the facts that I could learn something from his work. I recommend everyone to visit this exhibition if they have a chance because it is one the exhibitions that could make the viewers cry, laugh and even mad due to the memories each one had with each of the president’s regime. Most important of all DuBois’ exhibition highlight many good facts about the United States that many of us should know about.
Hindsight is Always 20/20
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota
333 East River Road Minneapolis, MN 55455