The Times review
mentioned Matthew Barney, so I feel justified in piling on. I think doing a
female version of Barney sounds awesome, and I am a little curious about why it
hasn’t been done before. The only problem in taking on Barney is he is pretty
damn good, and if you don’t kill it, it just ends up being weird, which I fear
is what is happening here. I love the installation of the wood paneling and the
drop ceilings, and I can’t quite remember, but I am picturing wall-to-wall
carpeting. The Video has some very nice moments: a woman hanging with her twin
sliding down the stairs on a mattress at night, putting cucumbers on a lap, all
good stuff, but, oddly, the cucumber didn’t seem particularly phallic, just
felt arbitrary. It looked good, but it is hard not to wonder why these things are
all happening? And the more the video goes on, things like pantyhosed feet kneading
testicular-like sculptures of cloth or rooms walled off by a mattress began to
feel random and again weird. And not in a good David Lynch way, but in the kind
of way that t doesn’t make sense so therefore it has to be art. I am sure there is potential for this to
be awesome and weird, but it needs some kind of overarching structure that
justifies the strangeness. Otherwise it just feels like someone reaching for art,
in a way that feels unfinished.
Through Jun. 16th
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