LET'S BE CIVIL, 2007
25 min video and installation
Food editor Clementine Paddleford wrote that the perfect soufflé responded, "with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke
or a dream."
Let's Be Civil embraces whimsical display while attempting to find an earnest subject, propelling a tenuous portrayal of domesticity both mundane and monumentalized by the presence of soufflé. Never learning much of the couple, the seemingly fantastical rise and fall of the souffle, and its reputation for potential disaster, provide insight into the uncertainty permeating their home and bodies.
>>click to watch video excerpt
>>click to see installation stills
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