Garbage and ghosts are both lonely. Emerging from the trash of porn culture, Florencia Escudero’s sculptures haunt a honeymoon suite, their hollowed-out contours suggestive phantasms, flirting with packaged and plastic notions of hot women and hetero coupledom, but these effigies are DIY recreations of phony fantasies, coaxing sweet dreams from beautiful nightmares. New York-based and Argentinian-raised Escudero presents her sculptures both in two-and three-dimensions. Sometimes, they show 3D in galleries, and other times, the Yale MFA grad stages tableaus like this one, flattening her humanoid dummies into digestible print and pixels, returning them to the mass-media circulation from whence their prototypes came. – Whitney Mallett
Florencia Escudero’s Haunted Honeymoon Suite
PUBLISHED IN ISSUE 16
Garbage and ghosts are both lonely. Emerging from the trash of porn culture, Florencia Escudero’s sculptures haunt a honeymoon suite, their hollowed-out contours suggestive phantasms, flirting with packaged and plastic notions of hot women and hetero coupledom, but these effigies are DIY recreations of phony fantasies, coaxing sweet dreams from beautiful nightmares. New York-based and Argentinian-raised Escudero presents her sculptures both in two-and three-dimensions. Sometimes, they show 3D in galleries, and other times, the Yale MFA grad stages tableaus like this one, flattening her humanoid dummies into digestible print and pixels, returning them to the mass-media circulation from whence their prototypes came. – Whitney Mallett