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Featuring new sculptures and animations by Erica Gangsei
Opening party: Friday, May 7, 2010, 7-10pm
Including:
beasts of the ice
beasts of the garden
beasts of the sea
beasts of the cave
Erica Gangsei rescues forgotten little scraps – packing foam, Christmas kitsch – cast off from the most broken aspects of our global materials economy, and uses them to make her sculptures, dioramas and stop-motion animations. She is interested in the transitional areas whereby a scrap of material, from the most over-literal piece of kitsch to a tiny piece of garbage, becomes something that starts to hold meaning for the viewer. Erica's work questions how much narrative she can impose and still leave a piece open to the imagination.
