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The superstitious have been known to bury their fingernails, the heartsick to pluck hairs from their lovers’ heads, believing that this detritus is forever linked to the spirit of the person from whom it came. How does the matter of the body relate to the self? Do we recognize ourselves in our baby teeth, in the film of skin we peel from a sunburn? And what of our living organs? Or our bodily processes—how do they relate to our understanding of what it is to be and to do?
Kristin Reger’s sculptures play with such questions. They evoke the body—tongues, veins, bone, teeth—but these objects appear to have their own creaturely sentience and will, writhing, embracing, and stretching: parts become whole. A menagerie of bodily somethings that dance around our fear of the body’s unpredictability, our understanding that what’s inside of us is so far outside of our control. In creating a universe that is more phantasmal than visceral, one in which the fleshiness of the body is ossified into…
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The superstitious have been known to bury their fingernails, the heartsick to pluck hairs from their lovers’ heads, believing that this detritus is forever linked to the spirit of the person from whom it came. How does the matter of the body relate to the self? Do we recognize ourselves in our baby teeth, in the film of skin we peel from a sunburn? And what of our living organs? Or our bodily processes—how do they relate to our understanding of what it is to be and to do?
Kristin Reger’s sculptures play with such questions. They evoke the body—tongues, veins, bone, teeth—but these objects appear to have their own creaturely sentience and will, writhing, embracing, and stretching: parts become whole. A menagerie of bodily somethings that dance around our fear of the body’s unpredictability, our understanding that what’s inside of us is so far outside of our control. In creating a universe that is more phantasmal than visceral, one in which the fleshiness of the body is ossified into…
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