Conflating public and private by delivering ostensibly “personal” correspondence in the streets, Hayes highlights the uneasy divide between the two spheres…Desire is recoded as a political category, embodied by the demands of protest.
“I’m a person and not a piece of paper…A person is not a static thing, or a bunch of words.”
Iveković has exhibited widely in Europe, and is considered a crucial figure in post-war Eastern and Central European art, yet she is little-known in the United States, an art historical blind-spot this retrospective aims to correct.
Walking around this year’s Armory Show, I couldn’t help but think of Fujiwara’s installation, wondering what conclusions some hypothetical anthropologist of the future might draw from the fair and its mixed cues, were she or he to stumble upon its ruins.
Hartung’s films constantly call attention to their status as constructed images, refusing the viewer any illusion that they might be visions of reality.