Jonelle Mannion
JONELLE MANNION is a writer living in Brooklyn. She has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB Magazine, and Art Monthly Australia among others.
MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ:
Embodied Forms
By Jonelle Mannion
Casts of dried mud dislodged whole from the body, or mummified fragments: Embodied Forms, the first exhibition dedicated to the work of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz since her death last year at 86, welcomes us with arms, formed or partially formed up to the elbow, from resin-stiffened burlap (From the Anatomy Cycle: Anatomy 21, 29 & 32, 2009)
FERNANDO PALMA RODRÍGUEZ:
In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People
By Jonelle Mannion
In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People is an exhibition of work made over the past two decades by Mexican artist and mechanical engineer Fernando Palma Rodríguez. Each of the mechanical-alchemical sculptures in the exhibition is rigged with light or ultrasonic sensors to be activated by observing bodies, which thereby become interacting bodies.
