Dorit Jordan Dotan: Redundant
@ Wedge Projects
1448 Howard St, Chicago, IL 60626
Opening Thursday, March 28th, from 3:30PM - 6PM
On view through Sunday, April 7th
Dorit Jordan Dotan will be at the gallery
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
March 28-30, 3:30-6:00 pm
You are welcome!
Dorit Jordan Dotan: Redundant
A Site Specific Installation
March 11- April 7
Reception March 23, 6-9 pm
redundant; not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous
Socio-economic changes in the American and global markets have seen the collapse of iconic companies that were deeply rooted in the American consumer consciousness.
Dotan takes a keen, eye-level look at this phenomenon through the multi-layered symbol of Mannequins – a visual motif that represents a sense of redundancy: That is, that which is no longer needed, no longer relevant or useful. The anthropomorphic icons who stood for decades, in our own human images, displaying current yet ever-changing fashions, now stand naked, and left behind.
Dotan creates a would be memorial to the “fallen”; those who have tumbled from their former marketable heights. Body parts and accessories, now useless and unwanted, reference the human costs of a system which continually demands new methods of efficiency and products of desire. Inevitably, as the system drives towards the “new”, what were once models of successful commerce become obsolete, and along with them, thousands of human employees are left behind, jobless, having been traded away and replaced by mega-companies of e-commerce.
They have become… Redundant.
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