Untitled . 2000
Just as the polyurethane objects depict quotidian items, their seemingly random arrangements create situations that skirt the periphery of one’s attention. The routine groupings seem to portray moments of rest or work in progress, finding symbolic meaning and humor in the mundane. As Weiss has said, “we produce an illusion and then take it back in a cruel way. You suddenly recognize that what you see isn’t there at all, but you’re quite sure you see it all the same.” Describing this crisis of perception, a curator once wrote, “the great theme of the work is the dialogue between the sublime and the ordinary.”
Matthew Marks
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