Emily Kimball: Model Home

box gallery

Santa Fe, NM

December 12, 2008 to January 17, 2009
Exhibit

Constructed of wood and painted in bright enamel that calls to mind candy-coating, Kimball’s dollhouse scale Model Homes are empty and pretty. Likewise, her cast Plexiglas female figures in clear frosted nursery colors are doll-like, but featureless. Installed in lines on the wall, multiple identical figures are each poised at the edge of a Plexi platform. The same dolls, but in solid matte black, appear in Plexi boxes in catastrophic piles, like burnt corpses. The viewer confronts questions of shelter, safety, homogeneity, and destruction.

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