Lynn Hershman Leeson "Found Objects"
Bitforms Gallery
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Including the premiere of the sex doll installation, “Olympia: Fictive Projections and the Myth of the Real Woman,” a provocative and updated version of Edouard Manet's notorious painting, “Olympia”.
February 2008, New York, NY - San Francisco-based artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson returns to bitforms gallery in New York for a new solo exhibition, Found Objects, running April 26-May 31. With a body of work that spans over 35 years and ranges from early conceptual and performance pieces to artificial intelligence robotic works and films, Hershman Leeson is one of the most influential artists working in new media today. Updating the notion of “readymade” introduced by Marcel Duchamp, Found Objects is a new series that features assembly-line produced female sex dolls to examine issues of projected fantasies and the mythology of artificial women. With the installation, “Olympia: Fictive Projections and the Myth of the Real Woman,” Hershman Leeson restages Edouard Manet's “Olympia,” projecting images of the painting on a doll to offer a provocative, updated version of the notorious artwork. Also on display are several digital prints in which the dolls appear to be emotionally involved in their predestined situations.
The Found Objects series continues the investigation of artificial women Hershman Leeson began with the “Roberta Breitmore” project in the 70's. As for her preceding fictitious and virtual personas - which included dolls such as “CybeRoberta” (1970-1998) and “Tillie” (1995-98) - Olympia's true reality surfaces through her artifices. The exhibition will also feature a series of original digital prints that explore the elements of fear and horror, contained in Olympia and brought forth through the photographic medium. These include “No Body,” “Warning,” and “Olympia Rising,” among others.
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Schedule
from April 26, 2008 to June 05, 2008