Maskull Lasserre’s installation, “Anatomische Holzschinitzereien,” confronts the origin and essence of man through its pairing objects of every day human life with various animal corpses. The pieces do so through pairings that are almost disturbing and uncomfortable to even look at. They are almost macabre. There is suggestion of our origin; our distance from a more base form of human existence.
You may have met guys like VJ Culture before. He’s part savant and part scavenger– one of those artists who spots a goldmine in an alleyway, in a trash bin outside Home Depot, or the film canisters and broken Panavision cameras behind a film warehouse– and can mash it all up into something shining and prolific. From halogen to fluorescent, from your standard household 60-watters to celluloid-spitting projectors, images and waves of light are bent and ricocheted off pvc tubing and 16 mm lenses to converge in a blaze of glory.
