Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Ayse Erkmen at Barbara Weiss

Ayse Erkmen at Barbara Weiss
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Erkmen's long varied career now recently threaded with these singular colored objects. There's something psychotic about this compulsive individuating, a violence even, declaring objects whole and distinct in screaming color, severed from the normal mundane order of objects with blankness and masked, objects which reveal nothing about themselves but their difference, manically irrepressible back into the norms of social behavior like little clowns at your ankles, and a video's too-closeness undermining its beauty by holding your face to it so you can't look away.