Genesis Belanger
Subtitle: through the eye of a needle
By: curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, senior curator
Contributors: Smith-Stewart, Amy, curator, contributor; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, Conn.)
Publisher: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Ridgefield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9781951416003
Subjects: Exhibitions; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Through the eye of a needle
Description: Through the Eye of a Needle is the first major solo museum exhibition of New York-based artist Genesis Belanger (b. 1978), whose practice spans sculptures and tableaux, primarily composed out of porcelain, stoneware, and upholstery. Anthropomorphizing common household objects--lipsticks with wagging tongues, lamps with ladies' pearls, and tins with doey-eyed sardines--Belanger's methodology blends Surrealism and Pop art with a self-possessed feminism informed by a career inside the fashion and advertising industries. Debuting an entirely new body of work specially conceived for The Aldrich, Belanger will create her largest and most elaborate mise-en-scène to date: dozens of animated objects arranged on ghostly furnishings that suggest narratives about our anxiety afflicted present. The artist's first museum publication, featuring an essay by the exhibition's curator, Amy Smith-Stewart, will accompany the show. Exhibition: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary, Ridgefield, USA (21.09.2020-09.05.2021).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held from September 21, 2020 to May 9, 2021 at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

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