Liane Lang: Old School @ James Freeman As artist in residence at Eton College Liane Lang has
photographed the historic chapel populated with eerie
mannequins and created bronze casts of the carvings
on the wall.
Her most recent
photographs home in
on the translucent limbs and contours of inanimate
mannequins; but through Clement's lens, they look more like slippery, free - thinking digital «Avatars,» as the series being shown at The Armory Show is titled.
Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other as one side of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale
photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured
on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised of tattered stuffed animals
on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless
mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square of a grid covered wall.