Michael E. Smith
pig
May 20th—July 3rd, 2016
Curated by Gesine Borcherdt
Michael E. Smith’s sculptures, films, and spatial interventions resound with the decay and vulnerability of nature and civilization. They seem like the remains of a ruinous civilization that is destroying itself at an ever-faster rate.
Courtesy by Michael E. Smith; CAPRI; Photo by Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Found objects like bones, dead animals, plants, or plastic containers are crushed, tried, bent, or covered in resin or paint.
Courtesy by Michael E. Smith; CAPRI; Photo by Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
They wind up under the ceiling, in corners, on the floor or hovering close above it.
Courtesy by Michael E. Smith; CAPRI; Photo by Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Courtesy by Michael E. Smith; CAPRI; Photo by Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf
Details and Credits
Gesine Borcherdt, Curator of CAPRI.
For further information please contact Julia Köhler.