Back to the Future

(images courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery)

Artist Justin Lieberman is into alternate endings.

Peek through the eyeholes cut into the wallpapered space of Zach Feuer Gallery on 24th street and enter a plausible future based on a fictional past. Taking cues from Philip K. Dick's World War II "what if" novel The Man in The High Castle and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown's architectural guide Learning from Las Vegas, Lieberman's coinciding shows The Corrector in the High Castle and The Corrector's Custom PreFab House at Marc Jancou in New York, postulate which current cultural objects would be of value in the future had Germany and Japan won World War II.

Gallery goers are invited to step over the pink carpet and through the resin dripped interior of a character, Nobusuke Tagomi, from The Man in the High Castle's home. You can find Tagomi, the Japanese collector of what Zach Feuer deems "pop cultural artifacts," draped in a Nazi cape, staring at a static television screen, or in the case of the Marc Jancou show, proudly waiting to welcome you into his home. On every surface gather a number of collectables that a bleached, Nazi state fundedsociety would treasure…things you may have secretly set aside in storage instead of offering up to Good Will, ahem, your "investment" of a beanie baby collection, your babysitter's club novels, or some unrecognizable baseball cards (on which Lieberman has taken the liberty of drawing in facial tattoos and peircings). Keep your eye out for the collection of …for Dummies guidebooks, especially Living with Hepatitis C for Dummies, as well as the recreated Charles Manson vest.

In a surprisingly democratic move, Lieberman allows you to take a piece of the exhibit home with you for free, that is, via your computer.