Isabelle - Jutta Koether
Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:00at PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art
Isabelle - Jutta Koether
In the third culminating component of Koether’s exhibition cycle at PRAXES, the framed gouache "Isabelle" commands the stage. A pink and orange phallus – evoking feminine connotations and referencing a priapic object famously carried by Louise Bourgeois in an iconic Robert Mapplethorpe photograph – "Isabelle" is occasionally joined by three paintings put on the low shelves placed on its surrounding walls. Emanating a fluid, live force – a jouissance that has even shaped its frame – the work becomes the last narcissistic object to front the aluminum mirrors on the walls.