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Student Union Collection |
Sandy
Skoglund
American, born 1946
Hangers, 1980
cibachrome, color photograph
30” x 40”
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Sandy Skoglund’s work has
been described as an “antic dream world of ordinary life
gone seriously awry.” For example, Hangers is a photograph
of a room that looks realistic yet bizarre--pink floor, yellow
walls, and all those blue hangers, two-dimensional images repeated
on the wall and floor, but becoming three-dimensional objects
as one falls into the can of paint, and another rests on the
seat of the chair.
Skoglund takes months to set up the room size installations which she furnishes
with a few familiar objects, modeled from clay, painted, and repeated, until
they overflow the space, like the hangers in this piece or cats in another of
her works. This gives the room a Surrealistic dreamlike quality. The final step
is photographing the installation with people in it. The difference between the
installation and the photograph, which is the real end result of her work, is
that the photographs contain people.
Skoglund says her work is based on a Frankensteinian model where the human beings
have created a world that is out of control and turns on them.
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