Welcome A beautiful performanceObserver highlights a recently opened museum exhibition in a museum not in New York City, and places we know and like have attracted a lot of attention.
There are many obsessions in JG Ballard’s science fiction novels. He has nothing liked better than an abandoned luxury hotel or a former dangerously crazy star. Compared to these, he has less relationships with that inorganic people will merge with organic matter in the future, especially in animals. We will have armpits, whose shells have resistance to nuclear explosions and alligators with diamond-fixed skin. The main role collision There is a similar urge to merge your body with a broken car, but the result is often less elegant.
Marguerite Humeau’s work (born 1986) offers a similarly wonderful merger that can be seen in the exhibition at the Miami Institute of Contemporary Art. There, her new commissioned sculpture and video mixes the animals with an immersion installation, representing her aesthetic distillation to date.
Show carpet room visitors with Skult (Uprooted) (2024), a tree made of wood, although it must be listed in full: “Dyeing laser-cut silk single-key yarn, beeswax, beeswax, handmade glass, grated walnut, polystyrene foam, epoxy resin , fiber fiber, fiber, cotton, cotton and steel. “It’s like an oversized piece of driftwood that happens to be alive, spinning without being random and stupid and hairless. Despite all the technology, it feels very natural and even friendly. Walnuts have a history of 150 years.
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The exhibition shares the title with the video work, which is “from an old, Indian-European term for shedding or splitting, “Sk-ey” suggests a mysterious mutation on Earth.” In which the soil is peeled off from Earth, in The bees are buzzing and turn into flying creatures, some of which can be found as sculptures on the walls of the exhibition. Videos alternate between skylines and delicious textures, just like you find in video games.
Her flying creatures draped their wings cheese around themselves in a dramatic way. These unthreatening levels are a major feat. Skaza (Air III Conference) (2024) Provides manual glass for swollen lips. You don’t want to kiss them, but they’re not weird. These six flying beasts do resemble vultures to some extent, but they aren’t looking at you, they are just resting.
Back on the floor, we have Skero (Sleep) (2024), a feeling like Scott But, appendages that may poke in the air as the organism sleeps or extend into the sky as it grows. Have these dormant roots awakened? There are a lot of non-human languages in our brains and in this show. Trying to decipher these creatures must teach us what it is a pleasure to do.
Marguerite Humeau’s “*SK */ey-“Miami ICA lasts until March 30, 2025.
