NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS


In collaboration with Beth Uzwiak

This multiform collaboration began with a deaccessioned copy of Djuna Barnes’s classic lesbian novel Nightwood (1937). Taking its inspiration from Nightwood itself, this installation sets the early 1900s circus—its dandies, charlatans, and coquettes—against imaginative renderings of human cells and organs. Together these forms celebrate the permissiveness of carnival, while questioning the place of “the marginal” in the everyday.

Handpainted screenprints; screenprint, relief print, watercolor collage, and thread on book pages; handmade paper sculptures; embroidery, vintage birdcage
2010


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Photograph by Sam Belkowitz


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