Description
Since the 1990s, Rachel Harrison (born 1966) has developed a colorful and delightfully grotesque sculptural idiom out of the most contemporary detritus--styrofoam, plastic buckets, vacuum cleaners--which she blends with slapstick humor and art historical and pop cultural references. "Fake Titel" presents sculptures and drawings from three recent series: "The Help" (2012), the large-scale installation "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan" (2011) and the photographic suite "Sunset Series" (2000-2012). "The Help" examines the roles of the artist, the muse and the "help," mixing found objects with abstract forms; "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan" is a mixed-media installation including a wall of pedestals, autonomous sculptures and video; and the "Sunset Series" comprises 31 photographs of a single source image, a photograph of a sunset. In each photograph in the series, shot on 35mm film, the artist physically manipulates the found snapshot to create a new image.
