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Allyson Vieira: A Pot to Piss In
Allyson Vieira will present 鈥淎 Pot to Piss In,鈥� an installation of new sculptures at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery from February 18 through March 26, 2017. The show will run in conjunction with Vieira鈥檚 solo exhibition at Company Gallery, February 28 through April 2.
It鈥檚 darker here now. A black volume of construction netting fills the void of the gallery space. Looming, it pushes you under it. You have to stoop and look down.
Vessels sit on the gallery floor. Humanity鈥檚 simplest tools, vessels are ubiquitous鈥攃ulturally, temporally鈥攁nd hold an essential, permanent place throughout the unspooling timeline of human existence. Made from melted plastic shopping bags, these imperfect vessels 鈥渄on鈥檛 hold water.鈥� The non-functional forms straddle times: a bleak, half-digested future鈥檚 past. Familiar logos and patterns stretch, melt, and degrade, becoming colorful swathes of design and decoration. There is a shoddy permanence to these inescapable bags; despite their 鈥渢hrowaway鈥� intention, they become a broken down, impoverished, raw material of the future.
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Allyson Vieira will present 鈥淎 Pot to Piss In,鈥� an installation of new sculptures at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery from February 18 through March 26, 2017. The show will run in conjunction with Vieira鈥檚 solo exhibition at Company Gallery, February 28 through April 2.
It鈥檚 darker here now. A black volume of construction netting fills the void of the gallery space. Looming, it pushes you under it. You have to stoop and look down.
Vessels sit on the gallery floor. Humanity鈥檚 simplest tools, vessels are ubiquitous鈥攃ulturally, temporally鈥攁nd hold an essential, permanent place throughout the unspooling timeline of human existence. Made from melted plastic shopping bags, these imperfect vessels 鈥渄on鈥檛 hold water.鈥� The non-functional forms straddle times: a bleak, half-digested future鈥檚 past. Familiar logos and patterns stretch, melt, and degrade, becoming colorful swathes of design and decoration. There is a shoddy permanence to these inescapable bags; despite their 鈥渢hrowaway鈥� intention, they become a broken down, impoverished, raw material of the future.
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