LIZ MAGOR – PERSONALIZE
2025-04-14Two fists extend from the gallery walls, each grasping a turning mass that extends to the floor below. As gyres stopped in motion, their coils are stacked in knots and twists, adopting a nearly bodily dimension. Equipped with two small eyes, it’s difficult to avoid personifying these strange creatures as they direct a shocked stare towards the viewer, wordless, or out of breath. The interjection of the uncanny pervades Magor’s work, as seen in Episode, 2024 a continuation of an ongoing series in which Magor meticulously replicates packing materials. Here, cardboard cast in gypsum is bent and folded, forming a compressed chamber that cradles a gleaming object inside. Supported by two bowed legs, the sculpture enacts a tenuous balance. This tension becomes a site of exploration for Magor, as each work represents a form of collision, whether it be between hard and soft, the fleeting and permanent, the anonymous and the personal, or even what is made and what is found. Throughout her work, Magor, with her own degree of humour, tests the limits of our ability to assign narrative and empathy to inanimate objects.
Opposite – Fist (yellow), 2025
Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2025
Andrew Kreps Gallery
394 Broadway
10013
New York
