Tamara Kostianovsky: Actus Reus

Black & White Gallery

Turning this Maritime Building gallery into a meatpacking plant for beef cuts made of tightly bound discarded clothing, the Israeli artist stages a critique of consumerism as exemplified in the manufacturing of garments and meat products. Familiar labels intimating sweatshop labor jut from simulated bovine innards hanging unceremoniously on meat hooks. The visceral violence of the meat imagery completely overpowers the DIY softness of the medium.

Closes 5/24.

This review will appear in the May 7 issue of The L Magazine.

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