|
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: MAGDALENA JARKOWIEC
Culminating Exhibition: "Dear Everybody, eat shit"
March 12th - March 27th, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday, March 12th, 6pm - 9pm Luggage Store Annex/Cohen Alley, 509 Ellis Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12pm – 5pm Beginning in Mid February, Magdalena Jarkowiec began a three
week artist residency at the Luggage Store Annex. During that time she will create fabric homes for her Giant
Mutant Dolls, life-size sculptures of sewn fabric that are stuffed with
ordinary poly-fil. The residency
will culminate in a show, “Dear Everybody, eat shit”.
The
title of the show, a private and humorous incantation, is a summary of the
artist’s conflicting desires to have a place in the world, and to have the
world leave her the hell alone. The dolls are a wild and imaginary resolution to that conflict: in their
strangeness and absolute singularity they have no hope of having a place in the
world, but they seem at ease in their exclusion. The dollhouses will emphasize that ease; they will allow the
dolls to be seen without the dolls “showing themselves”. They will be seen in their own
world.
|