Breathe


Max Streicher

March 15 to June 10, 2008

Preview: March 15, 2008

Location: Gallery Maskara

l r 2 of 6 works

Romulus and Remus, 2005

Nylon spinnaker, electric blowers, flexible duct

each figure approximately three feet

Attribution:

Explanatory text adapted from conversations with the artist and from essays by Gordon Hatt


Connected through the backs by a short piece of flexible duct, Romulus and Remus resemble blow-up Siamese twins, symbiotic melancholy and brutal co-dependent. These babies inflate quickly and forcefully, literally sucking the air from its counterpart while deflation is experienced empathetically, as though it were a complete human expiration. The power of this work is that when a figure loses air, it is seemingly the illusion of physical life itself that disappears.