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February 8, 2010

Cathy Wilkes, "I give you all my money," 2007. Installation view.

Mannequins, Smithson references, and medicalized consumption. This piece evokes the anesthesic feeling of walking through a shopping mall, that deadening feeling that can only be alleviated by reflecting yourself into objects. Shopping is a substitute activity.

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