New Installation Work

Pepón Osorio

Sep 13 – Oct 18, 2002

Pepón Osorio

Face to Face, 2002

Description

Pepón Osorio will exhibit two new works: a multi-media installation that recreates the offices of a social services agency and a sculpture, My Beating Heart, that hangs from the ceiling like a piñata, transmitting the recorded sounds of the artist’s heart. The installation explores the relationship between government social services and one specific family, extending the artist’s sphere of inquiry from the decorative excess associated with Latino domestic culture to the institutional environment. Transforming documentary sources, Osorio conveys the desperation of fragile lives with broader observations of society at large