props
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
03.10.22 - 04.22.22
The 2022 Core Exhibition features work by the 2021–2022 artists-in-residence: Mickey Aloisio, Bryan Castro, Maggie Jensen, Jagdeep Raina, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, and Sindhu Thirumalaisamy. This year’s Core critics-in-residence, Víctor Albarracín Llanos and Karen Schiff, have contributed essays based on their independent research to the 2022 Core Yearbook, published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Props takes the classical sculpture surmounting the museum staircase and subverts its directionality. Instead of declarations of cultural permanence and hierarchy leading to the heights of art, we have a downward cascade, precariously sustained. Props drainage pipes evoke the fraught relationships between bodies, human and geologic, and the moments when flood and water scarcity come together in the Houston urban landscape.
Images: Mickey Aloisio
