2023 Southern Prize and State Fellowships for Visual Arts
- August 17, 2023 - December 13, 2023
- Exhibition
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- Artwork
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- Artists
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art -
On Site Exhibition
Floodplain|uᴉɐldpoolℲ: ceiling fan
- Latex, wire, textiles, and Mississippi River mud
- 90 x 42 x 42 in
- Carlie Trosclair
Hollow shells of household furniture and architectural fragments: a nightstand, armchair, fireplace mantle, etc. fill the rooms. Each object is doubled: with one half displayed upright and the other draped upside-down, at times puddling into the floor below. Reminiscent of water reflections, each object is a mirror of itself. Adorned with mud from the Mississippi River and textile remnants, the upside-down sculptures are the residual. Deteriorating shells of a former object/self. After the flood. The top sculptures represent the ethereal memory of a stability that once was. Pre- and post- flood simultaneously, the doubles meet to create an implied horizon: anchoring the past and present. A pause to reflect before what’s to come.