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Woman in E
2016
Performance
E-minor is a universal chord of melancholy, one particularly suited to expressions of wistfulness and brooding lovesickness. Kjartansson carries the key of E-minor to immersive hyperbole with Woman in E, an installation that walks a characteristic line of earnestness and caricature. An E-minor chord rings out in endless repetition from within a dazzling tinselled environment, its performer rotating slowly like an idol upon her pedestal. Employing elements of glitz in a similar fashion to his earlier work God, Kjartansson's Woman in E simultaneously activates and subverts associations with traditional figurative sculpture and objectified notions of femininity. |