They knit a pair of dresses with connected arms, and title it Double Straightjacket . It's all there. Some of the work is very good, particularly a 1992 piece called Private Parts , the aforementioned piece where 14 words describing sex organs, orifices, and secretions are branded on handmade paper in Gregg shorthand. A large 1994 work in the northernmost gallery, where the pair turned most of the clothing they owned at the time into handmade sheets of paper, is visually lovely and marks a shift in the artists' work, where their own lives and their collaboration enter the art more directly. I'm not sure that autobiography is better than politics as a driving force in art, but the next room, where a series of small works explore Leone and Macdonald's personal and professional relationship, contains some of the show's most satisfying work.
Shooters is a simple idea, well executed.
Two shooters are poised slightly away from the welcome mat, ready to smash the whole thing with a mere flick of a finger. It's a supple illustration of the fragility of home, and everything that comes with it. Interesting concept, except the interviewees all have absorbed so much pop psychology and politics that they talk about their own lives in the most abstracted of terms. They could be actors reading from a script. Instead of transforming their subjects into glorious, moving art, these works take real experiences and filter them through screens, which turn them all into important issues , destroying whatever life they may have had.