Saturday, August 27, 2016

Ruby Neri at David Kordansky

Ruby Neri at David Kordansky
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"Fertility goddesses for the contemporary imagination;" the objects are a "fun" ironizing of femininity's tropes, of the goddess, a winking jest mocking the less progressive constructions of "woman" with comic timing while still being shackled to it. Whether we've moved past patriarchally constructed versions of woman (we haven't) we still get to feel some small relief of casting here the equivalent of a semiotic hex against it, which while cathartic still shows how brutally insistent those images are. The women branded 2016 to mark this moment.