![]() ![]() Like that project, “Figuer Sucia” is implicitly connected to Dean’s longstanding reflections on how Blackness is conditioned for and as social material. While Abattoir, U.S.A.!’s featured architecture was outfitted for the killing of animals, the rooms it showed remained empty, painting a backdrop of violent and eerie subjectification. Its central film work walked the viewer through the environments of factory farming. ![]() Dean’s recent exhibition at the Renaissance Society, “Abattoir, U.S.A.!,” took the slaughterhouse as a way to examine the limits of subjecthood. This mildly cubic, contorted sculptural figure ( FIGURE A, Friesian Mare) appears to be cowering, its subject’s equine body nearly unrecognizable. An ambiguous gray sculpture-heavily textured, with densely packed contours that evoke layers of folded skin and the crushed musculature of a horse-sits on a wooden pallet at the center of the room. One enters Aria Dean’s exhibition “Figuer Sucia” through Pink Saloon Doors (all works 2023) that open onto a vaguely neo-Western mise-en-scène. ![]()
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