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Alison Kuo does some nesting at SOFA Gallery
In her latest work, artist Alison Kuo creates an oblique narrative about the anxiety of home-making. Is a home a secure space or does it restrict freedom?
And what better locale to explore the issue of home than SOFA Gallery, the micro-gallery run by ambitious young curator Katie Geha in her north campus apartment.
SOFA hosts ”Alison Kuo: Nesting.’ The opening is Sunday from 4 to 6 p.m. The exhibit continues through April 18.
Kuo — who interestingly is on the verge of leaving Austin and relocating to New York City — makes anthropomorphic, fuzzy stuffed sculptures that suggest nesting rodents. And her fragile cage-like wooden constructions could be intricate nests made of twigs, grass and leaves. Temporary shelter or permanent protection?
And her drawings and animated video animate her complex narrative. Nesting — well, home, that is — is a very complex and contradictory thing after all.
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