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Park McArthur. Poly
Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Polys 4 (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Equinox House (2016), commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery,2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Contact A (2015), commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Contact F (2016), commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Contact V (2016), commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Polys 3 (2016), commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly (2016)
installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and ESSEX STREET, New York and Lars Friedrich, Berlin
photo: ANDY KEATE
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Poly is the title of an exhibition by American artist PARK MCARTHUR that is currently presented at Chisenhale Gallery in London. The presentation features three new bodies of work as well as a text made for this first UK solo show.
One of the work which struck me the most when I visited it a few weeks ago, is called Contact (2015-2016). It consists of a series of stainless steel trays on low plinths onto which MCARTHUR piled up personal care items such as condoms, latex gloves, dental dams, external catheters and pressure-reducing heel cups. I liked how these piles of single-use products not only explore a sort of non-hierarchy of display but also reflect a certain globalized cultural value.
A further series of works, which takes the same title of the exhibition, features three large paper pieces made with ‘superabsorbent polymer powder’. According to the press release ‘this substance has been developed to soak up and hold large quantities of liquid and is most commonly used in disposable hygiene products such as incontinence pads, bed liners and sanitary towels. With the introduction of liquid, the powder becomes a gel; swelling to hundreds of times its original size. The polymer powder reacts to the paper pulp, complicating the papermaking process and producing an unstable material that is also reactive to the conditions within the gallery’. The final pieces are minimally presented and have a rather strange organic appearance.
Finally a large sculpture made from wholesale-size, high-density acoustic polyurethane foam is positioned within the gallery space in order to absorb residual sounds and to eliminate resonance.
Although all of these objects or materials nearly always reference the corporeal body: its trace, its loss, its needs, its commercialism, its elimination, PARK MCARTHUR avoid finely physical embodiment or identity formation. Paradoxically these absences make the subjective body even more present.
Poly by PARK MCARTHUR is on view at Chisenhale Gallery, London until April 3, 2016
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Source: http://www.we-find-wildness.com/2016/02/park-mcarthur-poly/
