A Tavola!
Elke Solomon

GALLERY III

March 31 - April 25, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 1, 6-8 pm

A Tavola! brings together Solomon’s engagement with both the personal and social value of food and the rituals of preparation and consumption. “These universal histories are the basic ingredients of socialized society,” says the artist. Like a stage set, she recreates the familiar domestic space of the full scale dining room as both a real and imagined place where the symbolic and associative workings of the imagination unfold. Revealing for the first time an incredibly varied and iterative studio practice, Solomon's installation is dressed in a variety of crafted objects; furniture, chandeliers, tablecloths and an encyclopedic collection of food related pictures and literature. These objects “mashed up” with the ready-mades creates a context for the exchange and manipulation of meaning. The artist invites the stranger to her table to make the habitual strange

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