These elements all seem at home in the illusion of the enlarged dollhouse less expected are the giant 3D-printed clit rings sitting on the sofa and piercing the wrapped Christmas tree. Elsewhere in the gallery are a urethane cast of a plastic-wrapped Christmas tree and two bulky forms resembling the casts of wrapped presents in the video, one upright and the other on its side. A paper version of this same sofa was once part of Kris’s dollhouse. Nearby sits a sofa from the set in Alex’s House 3D-milled from wood, it was then layered with spray paint for a red patina. The uncanny spillage of limb-like forms recalls the sculpture of Robert Gober, while the replica of a childhood space conjures the work of Mike Kelley. These two short videos, looped with one other called Clit Wisdom (2019), play on a monitor on the reverse side of a hearth that Upson cast in urethane from the contemporary fireplace in Kris’s Las Vegas home its negative space holds a pile of cast table legs. Gretchen Bender Estate Gets Worldwide Representation with Sprüth Magers Following Metro Pictures’s Closure Thinking Inside the Box: Q+A With Kaari Upson The two friends seem to enact an imaginary scene as the life-size inhabitants of an otherwise empty children’s dollhouse, controlled by some unseen force. Some sculptures have spray-painted finishes that stain their clean white dresses. Together, they stumble through a sparse set, occasionally embracing, while Upson drags around her sculptures, including an enlarged cast version of a miniature wrapped gift from the original dollhouse. In another video, Alex’s House (2019), Upson appears with Kris in similar makeup both wear wigs to resemble the other. In the video, Upson is garishly made up: trompe l’oeil open eyes are painted on her closed lids, and she wears a black wig as she blindly describes a domestic setting populated with hats and hairpieces. This sets the tone for a combination of works at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles-all responses to a dollhouse built for the artist’s collaborator, Kris, by Kris’s mother-that comprise a poignant reflection on the fabrication of stories and objects and the vicissitudes of scale. “It’s amazing how little a tree will look in the forest, and how insanely large and deformed it looks in your house,” Kaari Upson muses in her video Masquerade (2019).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |