Penelope Umbrico "As Is"
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LMAKprojects is pleased to present three series of work by Penelope Umbrico: "Broken Sets (eBay)," 2009- 2010, "Zenith Replacement Parts," 2009, and "Desk Trajectories (As Is)," 2010. Mining the internet for its idealized fictions of a technologically obsessed society, Umbrico creates taxonomies of images that point to a deflation or rupture in these fictions. Employing methods of appropriation, extraction, and accumulation, Umbrico extracts details from these images that belie an optimism usually associated with this content. A reoccurring theme in Umbrico's work is the examination of how unattainable lifestyles are marketed, lusted after, and devoured by consumers. She highlights underlying cultural longings of a consumer subject allowing it to be replaced by a fictional, idealized, non-existent abstraction. The term "As Is" indicates a good bargain with perhaps some flaw, but taken here as an ontological statement, "As Is" points to a sort of existential anxiety: its reason for being is hinged on its potential for facilitating productivity, and its form is a testament to ideologies of a clean, elegant modernist aesthetic.
[Penelope Umbrico "Broken Sets (eBay)" (2009-2010) digital C-print on Fuji metallic paper 30 x 40 in.]
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from May 13, 2010 to June 20, 2010