Jarvis Rockwell || Figures from the artist’s massive collection ERRE’s iconic sculpture Toy-an Horse, a 33-foot wooden Trojan horse first installed at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in 1997, depicted the United States and Mexico as a single creature with two heads facing opposite directions Twenty-two years later, the artist was exhibiting the now charred and disembodied heads nestled together, suggesting the ongoing, but damaged, connections between the tow countries that ERRE calls home Cassils || Inextinguishable Fire, 2015 || Single-channel video
Fourteen Encapsulated Breaths, 2017 || Hand-blown glass, each uniqueERRE || THEM AND US / ELLOS Y NOSOTROS, 2019 || Aluminum light boxes with coloured lamps Just us
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
September 1st, 2019
Beautiful inclusion of yourselves
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Hehe, I couldn’t resist!
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Sending you good vibes, hope you can still breathe over there!
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Thanks 🙏 we’re actually having a beautiful summer right now. It sounds like the smoke from the Oregon fires is blowing to New York
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Yes, it’s really shocking! I’m reading there are something like 80 fires in the West… I’m glad I’ve missed this!
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