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For Los Angeles-based sculptor, painter, filmmaker and installation artist Kaari Upson, possessions are the gateway into the human psyche. Contained within them are all the hopes, dreams, fears and desires of their owners. Like a shaman, Upson creates her own gateways, using unorthodox techniques to...
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| Language: | English |
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Geneva, Switzerland :
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art,
[2017]
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| Series: | 2000 words.
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| Summary: | For Los Angeles-based sculptor, painter, filmmaker and installation artist Kaari Upson, possessions are the gateway into the human psyche. Contained within them are all the hopes, dreams, fears and desires of their owners. Like a shaman, Upson creates her own gateways, using unorthodox techniques to imbue everyday objects such as mattresses and bags with an arcane magic. The result is auratic works that act as powerful symbols of absence, failed aspirations and loneliness. Part of the '2000 Words' series conceived by Massimiliano Gioni and published by DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, this monograph contains an essay by Ali Subotnick that examines Upson's pseudoscientific approach to her art that allows her to create confounding work that is simultaneously familiar and foreign. |
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| Physical Description: | 145 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 2839920891 9782839920896 |