What made Lauren Simonutti spend three and a half years, withdrawn from society, working alone in an initially dilapidated house that she converted—every corner, every nook, every stairway, used to stage frightening and preposterous and wonderful events—into a series of photographic tableaux?
http://art.newcity.com/2010/01/11/review-lauren-simonutticatherine-edelman-gallery/
http://art.newcity.com/2010/01/11/review-lauren-simonutticatherine-edelman-gallery/
Very sad, as well as inspiring. Complex images with a very distinct continuity. A glimpse into a troubled but creative mind. Do we have to be mad to be truly creative?
ReplyDeleteAnd, echoes of your dismember dolls work.
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