Nora Schultz at dépendance

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Jury-rigging's nautical roots in the provisional ropes and lashing raising a temporary mast and sails - before basically come to mean any unsightly but workable solution to a problem - has a particular relevance to Schultz, whose early misuse of materials to create impromptu painting machines involved lots of rigging raising awkward solutions to the made up problems of needing to produce a painting to achieve that sort of elegance captured by outsider architecture, redneck repairs, and the whole meme of "if it look stupid but it works, it ain't stupid" captured by the internet, thematizing the absurdity of the problem's demands as a whole to begin with and then with further inelegant metal solutions to sculpture as horrendous jagged objects, the term is often malpropoed with "jerry-built" but not to be confused with the definition of "built unsubstantially of bad materials; built to sell but not last."


See too: Nora Schultz at Reena Spaulings

Nora Schultz at Reena Spaulings

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Through the 5 pages of her CAD archived exhibitions, the thread throughout is Schultz's awful materiality, predicated like the art student's mistake on the misuse of specific purposed objects sold by big box stores like Home Depot as though they were generic materials for the generic purposes of art and delivering objects with that uncomfortable look of misuse that seen here is made so abject.