Friday, August 24, 2018

Past: Ruby Neri

"'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 of 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..."


full: Ruby Neri at David Kordansky