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The Catwalker and the Catwalker’s Intern (2018)

Date: 2018
Medium: Video, Food delivery backpack, Sculptural assemblage, Laser-etched LED glass panel.
Duration: 2min 51secsec (looped)

The Catwalker and the Catwalker’s Intern was first exhibited in Weird Capitalism at Transfer Gallery, NYC, 2018. Produced on a laptop in coffee shops around Manhattan and Brooklyn on the months leading up to the exhibition, the moving image component of the sculpture is based on something I saw in Manhattan one morning – two people on one bike, and both were taking selfies. It was intended as an appropriate portrait of NYC in late-stage capitalism. The video works in this show were installed in food delivery backpacks, from which hung Soviet Socialist Realism paintings that were laser etched onto LED illuminated glass.

The Catwalker and the Catwalker’s Intern (2018) at Transfer Gallery, New York, USA

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