The Guardian takes another look at Grayson Perry’s recently completed home design in Essex, the fittingly-titled A House for Essex, which he calls a monument to “thwarted female intelligence,” and executed as a sacred communion with an imagined Essex woman named Julie May Cope. (more…)
Anicka Yi, You Can Call Me F (Installation View), via Art Observed
Five vinyl tents populate the darkened upstairs gallery at The Kitchen. There are two constants in this room, a steady hum of rotating motor helmets and an indiscernible smell. Through these minimal elements, Anicka Yi brings us encapsulated ecologies, and a single lively billboard with the words “You Can Call me F” to the Kitchen, an exhibition layered with materials, time-scales, and most of all, infusions of body matter.
Anicka Yi, You Can Call Me F (Installation View), via Art Observed
E.V. Day, CatFight (2011-2014) via E.V. Day Studio
On view now at Mary Boone’s uptown gallery is the haunting sculpture series Semi-Feral by artist E.V. Day. The show centers around a large, site-specific sculptural piece comprised of multiple casts of saber-tooth tiger skeletons floating above the floor of the gallery space. Day’s work, often concerning sexuality and femininity, takes its point of departure here from the slang term “cat fight.” A phrase that typically robs a fight from any viciousness, Day returns the notion to its original, ferociously natural element.
Mika Rottenberg, Still from Sneeze (2008), via Magasin 3
Sneeze to Squeeze is the first solo exhibition of work by New York-based video artist Mika Rottenberg in Sweden. Exploring the themes of labor, production and contemporary body-image, this major exhibition captures the spirit of the artist’s broad range of filmic work, while also offering a thorough, studied look at her work in installation and photography.
Mika Rottenberg, Still from Squeeze (2010), via Magasin 3 (more…)
