Diana Falchuk
“My exhibition at McLeod will explore my playful, intimate and sometimes repulsive relationship with the degradation and reconfiguration of foods, flora and fibers. For a muralesque installation in the northwest gallery, I will age and water-damage a 12-foot section of McLeod’s signature black and white wallpaper, and painstakingly repair missing fragments of the pattern with homemade pink and white icing. Echoing this piece, and in the same gallery, will be a video narrating my discovery of a dilapidated cake in the dumpster near my home, and my subsequent process to “revive it” using my hands. In each of these pieces, repair is an indulgent, decorative, personal act that reveals itself to be superficial and, arguably, futile. The northeast gallery will contain a new series of large and small drawings that continue to explore the connectivity of degraded and vital objects, with a hopeful eye toward the future outcomes of the excessive waste and decay in our current civilization.”
- Diana Falchuk