Well, I thought Adam Parker Smith at Storefront was the show
of the year for Brooklyn, but I guess calling it a year, a month in, was
premature, so just when the Adam Parker Smith show was wrapping up, bam, Corey
Escoto happens at Regina Rex. Month two of 2013, we have the new show of the
year unless of course something good happens in the next ten months. But wow,
the show was great. First off, it was a wonderful example of a photo sculpture
or, as I hope to copyright, scupltography
(originally coined by Christine Rogers). Sculptography in the nineties meant
you put a 4x6 in it ala Rachel Harrison, or you made a house out of glass
negatives ala the guy who did that. But this was what sculpture that deals with
photography should be. There was an upside-down plant attached to a similar
right side up plant hanging over a mirror in front of a small built-out gray
wall with a slight incline in front of an entire wall with a slight incline
painted the same gray. Creating a view of duplication on top of duplication or
in real time, the intellectual construct of photography. It was tight and
looked awesome. Not to mentioned some crazy collaged polaroids that looked
impossible. Their polaroid format made the images look immediate, but visually,
they were highly messed with, using some skilled photo trickery that I still
don’t fully get. There was a short, wide pedestal holding a house of cards made
from pieces of glass with images on them, which was okay, but the pedestal
featured a subtle, hot pink glow on the space between the pedestal and the
wall. It was small and hardly noticeable, but rad, once you caught it, the kind
of little detail, creating meaning, that is the lifeblood of good photography.
Again a smart, visually stunning show, dedicated to one person making
photography-based work. I was pumped, and hats off to Regina Rex to
continuously killing it and doing solo shows. It’s the kind of thing Brooklyn needs
more of.
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