subject: Boot In The Pair Sat Christian Louboutin [print this page] On an adjacent wall, a black ceramic cat lay expectantly on a pedestal mounted in front of a black paperboard mouse hole After the Love Is Gone, 2009), while in the next room a boot with a roof (reminiscent of the nursery rhyme "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe") emitted a scarcely audible recording of Kunath puttering around his Berlin apartment as the matching boot in the pair sat uselessly on the floor. christian louboutin That work, Untitled, 2009, could conceivably be thought of as a self-portrait, but more conspicuously so were two large photographs of a man reading fictitious selfhelp books and a video that followed an individual dressed as a snowman and holding a small suitcase, vainly attempting to traverse rugged desert terrain with a sad, simple melody composed by an amateur musician sounding in the background (all Untitled, 2009). Humorously self-deprecating reflections about marginality and failure, along with the combination of pathos and violence characteristic of fairy tales, set a playful yet melancholic tone: The works managed to feel excruciatingly intimate precisely because they attempted to reinvest the utterly ubiquitous and bland vocabulary of commodity culture with an endearing and redemptive quality. It's what pop songs sometimes do - but only in retrospect, once they have fallen from the charts and their formulaic structures have taken on the sublime value of personal memory and historical nostalgia. Christian Louboutin Pumps Deploying parody against her own language, Hardy represents (or de-represents) herself as, for instance, a somewhat manly woman, in bed, proudly displaying her underarm hair and padded undies to prospective viewers (or takers); a butch Hardy standing with a hard-assed expression on a ladder with short-shorts, Christian Sandals black cowboy boots, white tank top, and what resembles a boxing champion's belt; and a bad-postured, frumpy, nerdy Hardy wearing horn-rimmed spectacles. (A woman identified as the artist's sister Halie in the gallery's press release appears as a substitute model in a few pictures.) christian shoes This loose index of alternative desire and sexuality might just be a trap Hardy has engineered for us to reproduce normative modes and rites of image reception that she is at once contesting and reinscribing.
