The Toy Trough: Stories from Being Lost and Found | Anne Wu
Anne Wu effected a collective transfiguration of every toy in Elsewhere. The drama and pathos of the main installation spans the entire 106’ wall of the central museum space. Such seminal dematerialization of the art object from the distant heritage (1939-1997) schematicizes a cross- and self-referent subversion of motif on multiple aesthetic relationships: contiguous dioramas into which are inserted fictive linkages, primitive and mutual confrontation, defigurized action, absolute integration, expressions of developed extremes, demarcations of sculptural transitive signs, structural repetitions in a perceptual cadence, reassurance of forms arranged in the immediate present, on the basics of gesture and metamorphosis, mechanical transcription of excessive collapse of one signitor with multiple significadi, the incapacity of liberating or disengaging the multiples from the self-confrontation of immutability suppressed by expansive distance, always decisive and precise.
Anne’s revelatory liberation of inert matter yielding to life honors memories of our lives otherwise forgotten. The system of validation manifested by “The Toy Trough” prevails over the real forms and amplifies its own support of a single systemic, yet epistemic, net-of-Being, while each part thrives on the plurality of others, exploits them in a single manifestation of the pulsation of meaning, for fragments and remembrances seeking coherence yet independence, belonging yet fugitive, immediately present and focused on so-called conceptual or concrete construction of duplicate convergences of jostling activity in space shifting from icon to sign to original substance with contours and attributions from such incompressibly designated eidetics as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, and process art.
Elsewhere was privileged to host Anne in a rare artistic appearance after decades of intentional retreat from the ArtWorld, and is honored to house her phenomenal exclusive visionary imposition of meaning onto a heaping piled aggregation of broken, dirty, and forlorn toys into an impermanent diversion from the iconographic myth of creation from abandoned chaos to unbridled poetic lyricism.
Additional Piece: The Case
Collaborations: The Toyado Room, the Garfield Hole, the DepARTment store.
