Martha Friedman “Pore” Opening Reception at Locust Projects

Miami, FL – December 1, 2015 – To celebrate Art Basel, Locust Projects presented Pore, an exhibition of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Martha Friedman. For her first major show in Miami, Friedman created four vividly colored sheets of rubber – made by pouring around 1000lbs of the material onto Locust Projects’ floor – that have been rigged to cascade from the rafters. Each site-specific sculpture has a costume attached and is colored to reference one of the four humors, the theory of which formed the basis of Western medicine for over two thousand years. Pore also includes a series of metal sculptures. Upon entry, visitors were initially confronted by a monumental-scale necklace that hangs from the ceiling, based on an original piece constructed from a repurposed drain cover and paperclips. Further inside the exhibition is Cut Piece, a work that consists of dissected metal tubes with sharp points at its extremities, cross-sectioned like a medical school cadaver, oozing rubber appendages. Along the perimeter of the space, metal mannequins support the four costumes that are attached to the rubber pours.

New York choreographer/dancer Silas Riener was on hand to interact with the sculptural installation through a performance developed collaboratively with Friedman. Performing in the round, for a standing audience, Reiner put on each costume and dramatize a choreographed series of movements that explored the qualities associated with each humor.

Silas Riener

Martine Syms

Jona Bechtolt & Claire Evans

Melodie Blaize & Jill Weisberg

Justin Beal, Jane Hait, Lumi Tan, & Silas Riener

Alisha Levin & Andrew Horton

Audrey Rose Smith

Bernadeta Majauskaite

Charlotte Zahringer & Mary Robbins

Neal McAliley & Maricarmen Martinez

Kara Brooks & Vittorio Calabrese