A group show at Wallspace gallery a few blocks away from the Sarah Sze exhibition at Tonya Bonakdar also deals with the transformation of everyday objects, but in a much less extravagant, more lo-fi fashion. Including work by Jay DeFeo, John Divola, Martha Friedman, Daniel Gordon, Ryan Kitson, Jiří Kovanda, Kiyoji Otsuji, Adam Putnam, Laura Riboli, Judith Scott, Martin Soto Climent, Erika Vogt, Christopher Williams and Mark Wyse, the exhibition--Drag, Swagger, Fit Together--draws its name from a recent video piece by Laura Riboli which depicts two metal objects interacting with each other in stop-motion animation. The objects somewhat resemble large flat paperclips or bookends and fit together rather suggestively, their movements just measured enough to appear oddly sensual. In the same room a pair of green stockings are stretched out over a white canvas, with a high heel shoe inserted in the crotch area, alluding to male genitalia. Opposite this hangs a photograph by Jay DeFeo depicting a pair of reclining disembodied legs, perhaps a mannequin’s, with ripped pantyhose. Similar prosthetic limbs reappear in the show in a 1949 photograph by Kiyoji Otsuji.
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