Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Sarah Charlesworth at New Museum

Sarah Charlesworth at New Museum
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Stripped of their container, context, the images mutate amoeba-like. They abstract, branching to grasp reference, a fluid in search of conceptual container, they become Rorschach blots, meaningless shapes drawing meaning from the viewer who wishes to name them, and from the society who would place them there, these images of people leaping to their death.