The copy, the fake, or the reproduction that attempts—with differing degrees of seriousness and in distinct emotional keys—to beguile or deceive a viewer is not a new sculptural idiom, but it does have the power to fruitfully reflect and engage contemporary anxieties. This is borne out not only by the number of artists recently working within these loose parameters—Susan Collis, Zoe Sheehan Saldaña, Kaz Oshiro, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, and Hany Armanious, among others—but also by the surprising diversity of their output. Each has crafted work that sows confusion between an object and its surface, process and product. Each in their own way also asks: What does it mean to still make an object by hand? In the group exhibition “You Don’t Know Me” (on view through November 23, 2024, by appointment), Carly Glovinski, Justin Richel, Rachel Grobstein, and Duncan Hewitt offer four evocative rejoinders to the question. More still are raised: Is an object its appearance, its surface, its matter? How it’s used? The memories it holds?
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