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From behind the plastic windows of cardboard boxes that line department-store shelves, “My Life As” dolls promise purchasable pathways towards socially sanctioned identities. Dressed in carefully chosen garments and accessories, the eighteen inch figures that comprise the dolls of the collection exist within the lexicon of “American Girl,” “Our Generation,” “Götz”— toys that fill formative years with lessons of the inextricable link between the accumulation of objects and formation of identity. To become a riding doll is to own jodhpurs and a whip, “My Life As Cook” grips a whisk while “My Life As Student” sits in a small white desk purchasable for $9.97. Stuff renders life classifiable and grants modes of being names.
Ellen Schafer’s exhibition, stuff, employs recognizable forms to complicate the relationship between the body, quotidian things, and notions of self-construction. Works that are related to but not reproductions of familiar items recall the body while...More
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From behind the plastic windows of cardboard boxes that line department-store shelves, “My Life As” dolls promise purchasable pathways towards socially sanctioned identities. Dressed in carefully chosen garments and accessories, the eighteen inch figures that comprise the dolls of the collection exist within the lexicon of “American Girl,” “Our Generation,” “Götz”— toys that fill formative years with lessons of the inextricable link between the accumulation of objects and formation of identity. To become a riding doll is to own jodhpurs and a whip, “My Life As Cook” grips a whisk while “My Life As Student” sits in a small white desk purchasable for $9.97. Stuff renders life classifiable and grants modes of being names.
Ellen Schafer’s exhibition, stuff, employs recognizable forms to complicate the relationship between the body, quotidian things, and notions of self-construction. Works that are related to but not reproductions of familiar items recall the body while...More
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