The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Aluminum, plywood, MDF, walnut, mahogany, brass, fiberglass-reinforced plaster, and salvaged pine.
The work consists of a full-scale replica of the Apollo Belvedere, combined with replicas of Marcel Duchamp’s Three Standard Stoppages, a portion of Walter De Maria’s Broken Kilometer, the 1899 International Prototype Standard Meter Bar, as well as numerous casts made from trash and detritus from a Philadelphia neighborhood.
The Belvedere in particular has a troubling history, as it was used as an ideal of white, male beauty in the ‘scientific racism’ of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Best of All Possible Worlds operates as a kind of museum display from an alternate history, considering the seductions and perils of these abstract ideals by comparison to the messy, complicated, and subjective reality which we inhabit.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail of Apollo Belvedere replica.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail of Apollo Belvedere replica.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail of International Prototype Standard Meter Bar replica.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail of Three Standard Stoppages replica.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail of plaster casting.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail.
The Best of All Possible Worlds, 2019.
Installation, dimensions variable. This configuration 8’ x 12’ x 12.’
Detail of Broken Kilometer replica.
