Greer Lankton at Between Bridges

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The doll presupposes its animation, and these, decommissioned, await life mausoleic. Toys surveilled so under the guise of conservations eternal life they may never play again. Perhaps this why every Lankton press release reflects back on the past, to times of vivid scenes of famous friends spirited, Lankton's and other's photographs of the dolls from that time seem so much more interesting than them behind glass today, photography an elegiac art, these now dead bodies.

See too : Greer Lankton at Participant Inc , Nicolas Ceccaldi at Mathew

Greer Lankton at Participant Inc.

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Today, in the era of the online avatar Lankton’s surrogate dolls may have had a resurgence of relevance, staging and reflecting its world in the warped mirror of Lankton’s desire, the way digital technologies’ virtual platforms potentialize the endless construction of the avatar-self and its world. Lankton’s worlds were proto-virtual; projections of her desire/vision into imagined worlds that today makes more sense in terms of so many artists' digital desire-realms. It could have been great. But today the cast of characters surrounding the work today and writing the PR seems more concerned with projecting it back into history, back into its now lifeless scene, alongside the more famous names it can accredit to it, preserving it in the embalm of the all the pedigree it can inject.

See too: Tony Greene at Schindler House , Nicholas Buffon at Freddy , Danny McDonald at House of Gaga