Culina and Eruption
Rooms 7 and 8
The organizing logics of these galleries shift from those of domestic architecture to a geological event. In the first room, symmetrical walls orchestrate a set of corridors and niches to display artworks and objects that Katz interprets in connection with the conceptual and formal motifs of the Culina , or kitchen, in the Pompeian house . Fleshy palettes and anatomical fragments place a physical and spiritual emphasis on the body, both living and dead. Human appetites, needs, and emotions give way to a kaleidoscopic reinterpretation of a volcanic blast staged in the adjacent gallery. Transforming the exhibition into an artwork in and of itself, Katz establishes strict criteria for the Eruption room and arranges works in a dimensional crescendo. As such, she encourages visitors to lower themselves to the ground in order to view the smallest artworks eye to eye. These pieces introduce figurative and abstract representations of fire, heat, and energetic outbursts that Katz reads in connection to natural catastrophes as well as creative acts.
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