“(Kent) Rogowski’s photographs (in I Can’t Stop Thinking About Yesterday) explore the language and sensibilities that surround the drive behind and constructs of personal improvement, showing how the ever-thriving genre of “self help” acts as a portrait for the modern condition… By thematically grouping and arranging the spines and title pages of self-improvement publications—Hours of Power; Don’t Send Me Any Rainbows; Yes, I Am Happy Now—Rogowski charts the course of nearly every human emotion and experience.
“The viewer is left with the lasting question of what it means in our society to confront pain and crisis… Rogowski condenses hundreds of books into a singular dimension and entity, flattening the individual experience that is at the heart of the self help movement… a frank and harmonizing investigation into the many fragments within the human experience.”
–from the Jen Bekman Gallery
