Emerging Artists 2008

Emerging Artists 2008

ALEJANDRA LAVIADA

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When most successful, the totemic congregations of everyday objects in Alejandra Laviada's Photo Sculptures become personalities in their own reality, expressing both their nature and function. As Aristotle defined the essential "chair-ness" of the chair, so these succeed in expressing the purest form of the object's self. Yet there is a tension in these precarious, harmonious sculptures that reminds us it is the nature of all things to fall apart. Laviada, 27, makes her pictures inside the crumbling hotels of her hometown, Mexico City, where she recently returned after receiving her MFA from New York's SVA. -- C.T.