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GENERAL SPOILS
Laura Porter
February 7 - March 21 2019
General Spoils

Exhibition View, General Spoils. Photo : Michael Collet

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Exhibition View, General Spoils. Photo : Michael Collet

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Exhibition View, General Spoils. Photo : Michael Collet

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Exhibition View, General Spoils. Photo : Michael Collet

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Ay Mister Breeches, 2019, 9 x 20 x 20 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, radish, salt. Photo : Michael Collet

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Sweeper, 2019, 300 x 190 x 20 cm,Chamotte clay, enamel, EVA foam, black eyed peas, black beans, black corn, nigelle seeds, lentils, basil seeds, tulle, glass, wood, radishes; Periwig, 2019, 47 x 17 x 150 cm, Wood, ceramic, enamel, string; Mush Honey, 2019, 47 x 29 x 3 cm, series of 40, Plaster. Photo : Michael Collet

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Sweeper, 2019, 300 x 190 x 20 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, EVA foam, black eyed peas, black beans, black corn, nigelle seeds, lentils, basil seeds, tulle, glass, wood, radishes. Photo : Michael Collet

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Sweeper, 2019, 300 x 190 x 20 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, EVA foam, black eyed peas, black beans, black corn, nigelle seeds, lentils, basil seeds, tulle, glass, wood, radishes. Photo : Michael Collet

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Ay Mister Breeches, 2019, 9 x 20 x 20 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, corn, salt. Photo : Michael Collet

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Sweeper, 2019, 300 x 190 x 20 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, EVA foam, black eyed peas, black beans, black corn, nigelle seeds, lentils, basil seeds, tulle, glass, wood, radishes. Photo : Michael Collet

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Sweeper, 2019, 300 x 190 x 20 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, EVA foam, black eyed peas, black beans, black corn, nigelle seeds, lentils, basil seeds, tulle, glass, wood, radishes. Photo : Michael Collet

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Mush Honey, 2019, 47 x 29 x 3 cm, series of 40, Plaster. Photo : Michael Collet

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Periwig, 2019, 47 x 17 x 150 cm, Wood, ceramic, enamel, string. Photo : Michael Collet

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Ay Mister Breeches, 2019, 9 x 20 x 20 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, radish, salt; Rook, 2019, Variable dimensions, Taffeta, chamotte clay, enamel, nigelle seeds, straws, brass, suction cup, EVA foam, white corn; Pocket, 2019, 44 x 13 x 5 cm (x 2), Chamotte clay. Photo : Michael Collet

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Rook, 2019, Variable dimensions, Taffeta, chamotte clay, enamel, nigelle seeds, straws, brass, suction cup, EVA foam, white corn; Pocket, 2019, 44 x 13 x 5 cm (x 2), Chamotte clay. Photo : Michael Collet

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Rook, 2019, Variable dimensions, Taffeta, chamotte clay, enamel, nigelle seeds, straws, brass, suction cup, EVA foam, white corn; Pocket, 2019, 44 x 13 x 5 cm (x 2),Chamotte clay. Photo : Michael Collet

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When I come to be old, 2019, 14 x 9 x 8 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, salt, hair; Rook, 2019, Variable dimensions,Taffeta, chamotte clay, enamel, nigelle seeds, straws, brass, suction cup, EVA foam, white corn; Pocket, 2019, 44 x 13 x 5 cm (x 2), Chamotte clay. Photo : Michael Collet

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Rook, 2019, Variable dimensions, Taffeta, chamotte clay, enamel, nigelle seeds, straws, brass, suction cup, EVA foam, white corn; Pocket, 2019, 44 x 13 x 5 cm (x 2), Chamotte clay. Photo : Michael Collet

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When I come to be old, 2019, 14 x 9 x 8 cm, Chamotte clay, enamel, salt, hair. Photo : Michael Collet

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Rook, 2019, Variable dimensions, Taffeta, chamotte clay, enamel, nigelle seeds, straws, brass, suction cup, EVA foam, white corn. Photo : Michael Collet

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Rook, 2019, Variable dimensions, Taffeta, chamotte clay, enamel, nigelle seeds, straws, brass, suction cup, EVA foam, white corn. Photo : Michael Collet

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Bobo Washer, 2019, 100 x 62 cm, Tulle, aluminum, tape, plexiglas, rhodoïd. Photo : Michael Collet

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Bobo Washer, 2019, 100 x 62 cm, Tulle, aluminum, tape, plexiglas, rhodoïd. Photo : Michael Collet

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General Spoils, 2019, 720p video transfered to HD, 4’51, speakers, carpet, mustard seeds. Photo : Michael Collet

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General Spoils, 2019, 720p video transfered to HD, 4’51, speakers, carpet, mustard seeds. Photo : Laura Porter

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General Spoils, 2019, 720p video transfered to HD, 4’51, speakers, carpet, mustard seeds. Photo : Laura Porter

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General Spoils, 2019, 720p video transfered to HD, 4’51, speakers, carpet, mustard seeds. Photo : Laura Porter

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General Spoils, 2019, 720p video transfered to HD, 4’51, speakers, carpet, mustard seeds. Photo : Laura Porter

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General Spoils, 2019, 720p video transfered to HD, 4’51, speakers, carpet, mustard seeds. Photo : Laura Porter

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The word 'General' can be an honorific, so 'Spoils' would be the last name of a military officer. Otherwise, 'General Spoils' could be read as surplus at large that has been stolen, come upon, or produced.
– Laura Porter
 
In the Flemish legend of the baker of Eeklo, the Eeklo residents, when unsatisfied with their heads, would visit the baker of the village for a replacement. He would first cut off their heads at the neck and then stop-up the hemorrhaging with a cabbage while the new ones were being shaped and cooked. The gamble in this new-heading was that the replacement itself might over or under cook or otherwise get misshapen in the oven. 

For her solo exhibition at In Extenso, Laura Porter presents General Spoils a new series of works that deals with similar themes of eaten/uneaten food stuffs, material origins, the sorting out of the edible, food as an icon and object of contemplation, and the dispersion and projections of a body in a productive process.  Cornhusks, cinnamon rolls, turnips, black-eyed peas, cornucopias, tapiocas, brushes, brooms and vacuums are the main characters.

 

The floor compositions create systems of relations, where objects and images reveal intrinsic frictions. Natural and synthetic materials are coupled together; polished surfaces meet rough, brittle ones. Each work is a whole that relates in humoristic or mimetic ways without losing its singularity. The materials used (clay, salt, straws, cloth, PVC, plaster, seeds, corn) remain distinct and countable. The choice of mixing stable with perishable elements in the various works underlines an interest for the temporality of objects and materials.

 

In the basement of the exhibition space, G. Spoils, a video made with French artist, Valentin Lewandowski, stages the cosmetic or comestible transformations of certain materials with an endoscope camera.

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