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ARTNET.com: Dateline Brooklyn: SUPERFAT (review)
posted October 04, 2005
DATELINE BROOKLYN
by Stephen Maine
It’s showtime in Williamsburg.
Four videos crowd “Superfat,” at Brooklyn Fireproof through Oct. 9, 2005. Curated by Joshua Altman, now at Stux, the show brings marquee names to this ambitious space on Richardson Street. Martha Rosler, Nayland Blake and Patty Chang weigh in with work suggesting a troubled relationship with food; in the gallery’s performance space, the Amsterdam-based L.A. Raeven (who are anorexic identical twins) contribute the hour-long 5200 ml, in which a young, super-thin woman sprawls uneasily on a rumpled mattress in a stark, white room, occasionally bestirring herself to scrawl a few lines in a notebook, sip from a cup, or weigh herself. In a weak, halting voice-over she reads from these notes. (“One hundred grams appeared from thin air. It’s a mystery.”)
No, I didn’t watch the whole thing—maybe there’s a happy ending! Comic relief is provided by Convertible Fat Car (2005), a tiny, pudgy automobile by the ever-amusing Erwin Wurm.
STEPHEN MAINE is an artist and writer who lives in Brooklyn.
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