Locust Projects celebrates Martha Friedman: Pore – Art Basel Miami Beach – Tues, Dec 1

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Martha Friedman: Pore

November 7, 2015-January 9, 2016

Performance schedule for Pore featuring Silas Riener:
Monday, November 30, 3pm
Tuesday, December 1, 8pm*
Wednesday, December 2, 8pm
Thursday, December 3, 11am & 8pm
Friday, December 4, 11am
Saturday, December 5, 11am & 6pm
Sunday, December 6, 11am

Locust Projects is pleased to present Pore, an exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Martha Friedman. For her first major show in Miami, Friedman has created four vividly colored sheets of rubber – made by pouring around 1000lb of the material onto Locust Projects’ floor – that have been rigged to cascade from the rafters. Each site-specific sculpture has a costume attached and is colored to reference one of the four humors, the theory of which formed the basis of Western medicine for over two thousand years.

Pore also includes a series of metal sculptures. Visitors are initially confronted by a monumental-scale necklace that hangs from the ceiling, based on an original piece constructed from a repurposed drain cover and paperclips. Further inside the exhibition is Cut Piece, a work that consists of dissected metal tubes with sharp points at its extremities, cross-sectioned like a medical school cadaver, oozing rubber appendages. Along the perimeter of the space, metal mannequins support the four costumes that are attached to the rubber pours.

During Art Basel week, New York choreographer/dancer Silas Riener will interact with the sculptural installation through a performance developed collaboratively with Friedman. Performing in the round, for a standing audience, Reiner will, in turn, put on each costume and dramatize a choreographed series of movements that explore the qualities associated with each humor.

Friedman often uses rubber and steel in her work as a way to explore form and substance, frequently confounding our conventional expectations of everyday objects by playing with their materiality and scale. These interests are a clear influence on Pore, an exhibition that presents a sculptural exploration of the vulnerability of the human body and the permeability of its borders.

Also on View: Art on the Move: Martine Syms curated by Franklin Sirmans and Project Room: Beatriz Monteavaro

Locust Projects presents Martha Friedman: Pore
3852 North Miami Avenue | Miami Design District

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