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Liss LaFleur
Stem and Grapes (spine and head)
2018

About the Item

The series is comprised of 22 blown glass fruits. Created during an artist residency at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA, these exaggerated glass fruits are scaled proportionally to bodily measurements of the artist and her mother. A glass banana the length of LaFleur’s leg, apples the size of her fists, and an impressive grape stem in the proportion of the her spine (complete with head-sized grapes) were borne through research on the historical use of fruit to feminize, criminalize, and sexualize the body. Each hollow glass object is filled with gelatin, a medium LaFleur often returns to for its ties to the space race, ammunition, the construct of the homemaker, and specific moments in American history. The rose-colored gelatin beckons to special window treatments that filter the room’s light in the same hue and alter the viewer’s experience of the space. Equally significant to the series is a new single channel video projection, Boi with A Fruit Basket (2018). The film addresses what Dr. Frank Robert Wake coined in the 1950s as the “Fruit Machine,” a series of pupillary response tests, sweat tests, and word associations used to eliminate all gay men from the Canadian civil service. Electric cello accompanies text read directly from Dr. Wake’s report on the “Fruit Machine” on how to “find and purge” homosexuals. Recalling anthropological films used to record, replay and dissect the mechanics of bodily communication, the video takes Dr. Wake as an unlikely interlocutor for exploring contemporary queer female subjectivity. LaFleur also confronts Dr. Wake’s conspiracies through a series of laminated vinyl prints, each referencing “definitive homosexual meaning,” as written by Dr. Wake. With words like “Bull,” “Coo” and “Cruise,” many of these are double entendre, suggesting socially awkward or sexually suggestive associations. Reclaiming what Sontag describes as “a love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration -- something of a private code, and a badge of identity,” the work in Tutti Frutti collectively examines representations of queerness and its relationship to narrative, vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. -- Liss LaFleur (b. 1987, Houston) uses video and performance to examine representations of queerness as it relates to American history, vernacular, feminist identity and radical traditions. Her artwork has been exhibited and screened extensively including: the SXSW Film Festival; Cannes Court Métrage; PBS; Tate Modern, London; the Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; the Museum of Glass; and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea. She is a 2018 Immersive Scholar, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a current faculty member in the College of Visual Art & Design at the University of North Texas. LaFleur was recently included in an exhibition at the Silos at Sawyer Yard as part of Sculpture Month Houston and she will also be included in the inaugural exhibition of the McKinney Avenue Contemporary.

Creator:
Liss LaFleur
Creation Year:
2018
Dimensions:
Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 72 in (182.88 cm)
Medium:
Blown Glass,Glass
Movement & Style:
Feminist
Period:
2010-
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1593842451

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