Repulsion
Curated by Heidi Schlatter
January 27 - March 6, 2004
Repulsion, curated by New York artist Heidi Schlatter, is inspired by the unsettling claustrophobic atmosphere of Roman Polanski's 1965 film of the same name. The mutations of physical and mental space in the film--endless corridors, cracks in walls, mirrors, drains, rotting meat relate the lead character's descent into madness--provide a context for a grouping of artworks that explore complexities of experience balanced between what individuals feel and process "inside" and what happens in the "outside" realm of social norms, conventions and collective history. The exhibition, housed within a mazelike fabricated structure, features work by eleven artists whose work provokes entry into this mental landscape.
