Excerpt from Tim Nowlin "... the initial impetus for this exhibition was based on a decision simply to measure a variety of new work by a newer generation of artists against that of the established paradigm....The work of Monique Genton is different from that of the other artists in that it does not so much address contemporary commodity culture as it does the historical baggage of perverse moral codes which ironically still inform that culture. Genton has appropriated images from a 1929 swimming manual which literally instructs young women how to swim without experiencing any pleasure and has reconfigured these images to extract as much as possible the grace and sensuousness inherent in the female limbs as they stroke the water. Out of context close-ups of these images of youthful female limbs, applied as photo-laminates on immaculately smooth and brightly painted surfaces, are compelling in the sense with which an obvious and natural sense of the feminine, which had been so stringently suppressed, is able to surface again."