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Kirsten Mosher: Soul Mate 180° (The Other Side Is Here)
Kirsten Mosher: Soul Mate 180° (The Other Side Is Here)
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Kirsten Mosher, Soul Mate 180° (The Other Side is Here), 2019. Courtesy of the artist, ⓒ Kirsten Mosher, photo ⓒ Museum Associates/LACMA.
Kirsten Mosher, Soul Mate 180° (The Other Side is Here), 2019. Courtesy of the artist, ⓒ Kirsten Mosher, photo ⓒ Museum Associates/LACMA.
About the Exhibition
On view at LACMA from November 7, 2019 to February 25, 2020, Kirsten Mosher’s Soul Mate 180° (The Other Side Is Here) was an installation composed of a sculpture and text developed with support from LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab. The 1:1 scale sculpture was modeled after a wave in the Indian Ocean (on the opposite side of the Earth from LACMA). Antipodes, the parts of the earth diametrically opposite to each other, have been an important part of Mosher’s work, which includes painting, sculpture, video, and text. For the exhibition, the realization of wave topography was based on data collected from an array of sources, including high resolution radar, ships, aircraft, satellites, and buoys. The data was interpolated algorithmically and projected to reflect ocean and weather conditions at a specific place and time.
Soul Mate 180° was developed with support from LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab. Mosher’s initial project proposal featured an image of a pencil piercing an orange, which evolved into the marble sculpture on view at the museum. The artist was looking for a direct way of expressing the concept of an antipode without using a map or globe, since an antipodal connection can happen with any two opposite places. Soul Mate 180° was intended to not only talk about the architecture of various sides, but also about what’s in between and beyond, such as geographic, cultural, and political spaces.
About the Artist
Kirsten Mosher (b. 1963, Muskegon, USA) is a visual artist engaged in video, writing, studio work and art in public places. Her work often documents the relationships between and beyond seemingly opposing spaces: inside/outside, private/public, natural/artificial. Her work takes place in hybrid spaces: a highway crashes into a kitchen; a road hits the interior of a gallery; and in her performance "Carmen," she crosses streets and parks as an amalgamation of human and car.
Mosher exhibited nationally and internationally since the late 1980s, at venues including the Venice Biennale Aperto (1993), Villa Arson, Nice (1994); MOMA, New York (1997); Public Art Fund, New York (1998); and the Villa Merkel, Bahnwarterhaus (1999). LACMA commissioned work for the exhibition A is for Zebra, in 2011, and the MUSAC in Leon, Spain commissioned work and published her series of Gumhead books in 2011.
About the Program
LACMA Art + Technology Lab
The LACMA Art + Technology Lab supports experiments in design, creative entrepreneurship, adventures in art and industry, collaboration, and interdisciplinary dialogue. Inspired by LACMA’s seminal Art and Technology Program (1967–1971), which paired prominent artists such as Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol with the resources of major corporations, the program was revived in 2015 as part of The Hyundai Project at LACMA, our ten-year partnership with the museum. The Lab provides grants, in-kind support, and facilities at the museum to support the progress of artist projects that take purposeful risks, and to foster innovation and collaboration across disciplines.
