Michael E. Smith
pig
May 20th—July 3rd, 2016
Curated byGesine 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 byMichael E. Smith; CAPRI;Photo byAchim Kukulies,Düsseldorf
Found objects like bones, dead animals, plants, or plastic containers are crushed, tried, bent, or covered in resin or paint.
Courtesy byMichael E. Smith; CAPRI;Photo byAchim Kukulies,Düsseldorf
They wind up under the ceiling, in corners, on the floor or hovering close above it.
Courtesy byMichael E. Smith; CAPRI;Photo byAchim Kukulies,Düsseldorf
Courtesy byMichael E. Smith; CAPRI;Photo byAchim Kukulies,Düsseldorf
Details and Credits
Gesine Borcherdt,Curator of CAPRI.
For further information please contactJulia Köhler.