Siera Hyte at Cordova

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Like awaking to find the remains of the party with hangover fully in head, touched,  Hyte's littered objects evidentiary to what was, point to the artist as magistrate god hand, party organizer, but it's less requiem than happiness at the post-apocalypse the doors open to nature spilling into ours, the crust of time and hand, the paper that conforms to your pressure.


See too: Susan Cianciolo at Modern Art

Peter Piller at Projecte SD

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Surrealist juxtaposition didn't need Rosler's knife to collapse the elements together, domestic normativity and war were already covering german magazines apparently. War on the front, woman on the rear, a brand-identity so metaphorically rife its capture like gazelles scatter. If magazines like Life were populist anthropology-lite, Piller's is a sociology of that anthropology that covers magazines, which "when freed from any sort of caption, say precisely nothing, but are in themselves all so very telling." The portraits humans give themselves.


See too: Peter Piller at Capitain Petzel