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Genesis Belanger Coaxes the Uncanny from Vignettes of Consumption and Gluttony

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A comb with completely manicured tooth, a tote overflowing with groceries and a bitten chocolate cookie, and a vacuum cleaner intent on consuming a rug are just a few of the peculiar particulars in Genesis Belanger’s newest exhibition.

Within the Proper Situations we’re Indistinguishable, on view now Tempo Gallery in London, presents fourteen vignettes of on a regular basis life gone awry. Recognized for her disorienting, typically seductive sculptures, the artist continues working together with her signature flatness and distinctive visible language, drawing on promoting strategies to critique consumerism plaguing fashionable life.

“Cause and Effect” (2024), stoneware, powder coated metal, plywood, composite board, sunbrella material, silk and cashmere suiting, {hardware}, 41 × 35 × 53 inches

Belanger’s earlier sculptures enjoy pastel hues and the nice and cozy textures of ceramic, whereas this new physique of labor is extra expansive. Daring, saturated colours seem all through the person vignettes, like on a cobalt vase and vibrant pink fruits resting in a squat dish. The artist additionally incorporates a wider array of supplies into these sculptures, together with the silk cashmere lining a vacuum cleaner bag and the veneered plywood that constructions shelving.

Arousing humor and absurdity from essentially the most banal objects, Belanger invokes extreme need, gendered expectations, and company malaise. “Self-Awareness,” for instance, incorporates a disjointed portrait of varied objects unfold throughout a wooden desk. The candlesticks with knotted wicks reference the sensation of working a 9-to-5 job, which she describes as “burnt down and tied in knots,” whereas the tableaux as an entire nods to self-curation and efficiency.

a plant sculpture in a bright blue pot with tall stems, orange fruits, and pink flowers
“A Breeze Shimmers” (2024), patinaed brass, powder-coated aluminum, porcelain,
{hardware}, 84 × 50 × 45 inches

The artist sometimes shies away from depicting the human physique in full kind, as a substitute preferring to signify it via fragmented components or symbols like meals and comely objects. Fruit usually takes on this function, particularly within the pair of spherical, potted sculptures that give credence to pure progress.

These works stand in stark distinction to the flattening impact of “16 Bit Eden,” which layers flowers and cherries atop a grid. Evoking the digital world, the pixelated backdrop questions the up to date need to disregard the objects and realities proper in entrance of us.

Within the Proper Situations we’re Indistinguishable is Belanger’s first U.Ok. exhibition and runs via November 9. See extra of her work on Instagram.

a bag of groceries including a sleeve of cookies with a bite out of one rests on a cardboard box
“Husband Material” (2024), porcelain, stoneware, plywood, raincoat material, rubber-coated linen
18 1/4 × 21 × 16 5/8 inches
a shelf with bottles, a jug of milk, egg carton and other objects
“Family Portrait” (2024), veneered plywood, cork, porcelain, stoneware, 45 1/2 × 41 × 11 1/4 inches
a hair come with painted fingernail-like teeth
“Sentimental Attachment” (2024), stoneware with oil-painted manicure, 25 × 13 × 2 inches
a shelf of cake and pie slices in a case
“Managed Expectations (you only deserve a tiny piece)” (2024), veneered plywood, powder-coated metal, cork, porcelain, 30 × 20 1/4 × 7 3/8 inches
a sculpture of a blue button up shirt and pink tie
“It Always Comes Out in the Wash” (2024), stoneware, porcelain, patinaed brass, and fiberglass,
29 × 6 × 32 inches
two potted plant sculptures bookend a wall work with plants and vines growing on a grid
Set up view of ‘Genesis Belanger: In the Right Conditions we are Indistinguishable,’ Tempo Gallery, London (2024). Picture by Damian Griffiths

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