Friday, February 24, 2017



In a typical museum setting in the time of modernistic art one would not expect to see metal figures masquerading around as actual people. Caroline Mesquita creates her metallic manikins to not just be an object of art and performance but also shapes some of these figures to be much like the viewer. 
While she does not appropriate any specific artists or materials for these figurines, Mesquita certainly appropriates the actual viewer of an artistic piece. She presents the figure on the far left in particular as a person with their hands behind their back as they look on to the events happening in the group of metal manikins.
Rather than copying a specific style of art and using it as her own, she is copying the viewer. How someone may typically stand when they are trying to figure out conventional artistic pieces and if they belong in a museum which can relate to how many people think when approaching Fraser's essay when the public enters a museum space.
People acting on these ideologies that certain arts should be in a museum, how they should act, what the boundaries of an art museum art, and so on.

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