{"id":12173,"date":"2022-02-12T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=12173"},"modified":"2022-02-12T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:12:00","slug":"legally-blonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/legally-blonde\/","title":{"rendered":"Legally Blonde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Making of a Bombshell<\/em> by Jacqueline Fraser
86.625″x43.25″x57.875″; wigs, polka dot top, lace pleated dress, ribbons, found images; 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Downs & Ross, New York. Photo: Phoebe d\u2019Heurle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legally Blonde<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at Downs & Ross in New York, New York, USA
13 January-26 February 2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From our current perspective, Hollywood\u2019s blonde heroines are always coming of age for the wrong reasons. A SoCal sorority sister enrolls in Harvard Law intent on winning back her WASP-y ex-boyfriend; or a showgirl from Little Rock stages a successful revue in Paris while otherwise engaged in a comically pathological pursuit of diamonds; or, maybe, a blindly ambitious news personality attempts to boost her ratings, and, instead, tumbles down the nationally-syndicated rabbit hole. \u201cWait, am I gonna be the story?,\u201d asks Charlize Theron anxiously, portraying a fellow blonde, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, early in Jay Roach\u2019s 2019 film Bombshell<\/em>, a political comedy documenting the proto-#MeToo demise of the cable network\u2019s mastermind Roger Ailes. Set against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, the film introduces a Queen of Hearts: then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, who orders Kelly\u2019s decapitation by mean tweet, for Kelly\u2019s crime of confronting Trump with a headline-grabbing account of his own misogyny on live television. Most viewers of Bombshell<\/em> will arrive to it already knowing what comes next: Fox\u2019s subsequent embrace of Trump and desertion of Kelly, former host Gretchen Carlson\u2019s wrongful termination suit against the network, the seemingly endless, sordid accounts of sexual harassment at Fox that followed, and, in the final act, Kelly\u2019s career-defining patricide of Ailes, her Jabberwock-like mentor. Replacing the real world leads with A-list actors like Theron and Nicole Kidman, the film draws our attention to the uncanny construction of its own image, and, perhaps inadvertently, the plasticity of its main subjects. And, as evinced by the duality of its title, Bombshell<\/em> shares with Ailes an understanding that his deleterious production of \u201cthe story\u201d and his manufacture of the telegenic personality are irretrievably, inextricably connected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film is the subject of Jacqueline Fraser\u2019s The Making of Bombshell<\/em>, 2021, the latest entry in a series of installations, beginning with The Making of La Dolce Vita<\/em>, 2011, and including recent iterations The Making of Dressed to Kill<\/em>, 2019, and The Making of Maria by Callas<\/em>, 2020. Drawing upon the title format of the behind-the-scenes documentary, generally released alongside the film as a sort of fan service or promotional tool, Fraser retains the parallelism of the format, but inversely imagines herself to engage in a process of remaking the source film through a series of collages and assemblages, later installed alongside an unadulterated projection of the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Artist Is In Attendance (After Konrad Lueg)<\/em> by Mare Karlberg
48″x36″; archival inkjet print on canvas with gouache butt prints; 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Downs & Ross, New York. Photo: Phoebe d\u2019Heurle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere, Marie Karlberg constructs desecrated copies of works by cool male conceptual painters who came to prominence in the late 1990\u2019s, artists like Merlin Carpenter, G\u00fcnther F\u00f6rg, Christopher Wool, and Heimo Zobernig. Transforming the painterly surface of the original into a digital image and then printing it back onto canvas, Karlberg allegorically submits her source material to a sort of blonde-ification, while simultaneously restoring her own authorial signature by repetitiously applying her own ass to canvas, covered in gouache. By employing herself in a performance redolent of Yves Klein, Karlberg humorously suggests a psychosexual relationship to this lineage of intellectual bad boys turned art market mainstays, tempered by a self-reflexive knowingness that resonates not only elsewhere in her oeuvre, but also in the dually defiant and aspirational logic at work in the exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition includes work by Vikky Alexander, Darja Bajagi\u0107, Jacqueline Fraser, Marie Karlberg, Catherine Mulligan and Kayode Ojo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(adapted from text written by Jeremy Gloster for Downs & Ross)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Legally Blonde at Downs & Ross in New York, New York, USA13 January-26 February 2022 From our current perspective, Hollywood\u2019s blonde heroines are always coming of age for the wrong reasons. A SoCal sorority sister enrolls in…<\/p>\n

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