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| The Large House for Humanity proposed for Washington, DC |
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| a model of a monument to women |
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is currently exhibiting
The Utopian Projects, a display of models of sculptures by Ilya and Emilia Kabokov. Some of them have been built, some exist only as concepts and models. This exhibit has not been getting much attention, because it sits in the inner ring of the museum outside of the Ai Wei Wei exhibit of Lego portraits. The less said about that exhibit, the better. I love scale models and found the Kabakov's show quite charming.
Themes of angels, toilets and ladders repeat throughout the exhibit, but you don't have to like any of those things to appreciate the humor and wistfulness of the art.
How can One Change Oneself? from 1998 instructs one to wear this set of angel wings for two hours of forced solitude and silence every day. Repeating this for two or three weeks will bring one closer to the person they wish to become.
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| Monument to Icarus | | | | |
How to Meet an Angel directs the participant to climb an extremely high ladder projecting out into the stratosphere, placing themselves in mortal danger. They will ask for assistance, and an angel will come to their rescue.
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| A piece of fallen sky |
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