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SUPERFAT: curated by Joshua Altman

September 10, 2005 — September 10, 2005

Curated by Joshua Altman
Artists include: Monica Abend, Nayland Blake, Patty Chang, Don Doe, John O’Connor, James Gobel, Jeph Gurecka, L.A. Raeven, Martha Rosler, Erwin Wurm
OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, September 9, 2005, 7 – 10 pm
SUPERFAT addresses the performative and sculptural qualities of fat, oral fixation, hunger, body transformation and the human body as sculptural material. In addition, the exhibition investigates the state of weight-loss economics and the “American fat phenomenon,” as manifest by the bombardment of network shows highlighting severe cosmetic and psychological transformations - makeovers - that act to quantify the widespread obsession with drastically altering personal appearancee through invasive surgical and psychological techniques.