Found Objects · Lynn Hershman Leeson

San Francisco-based artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson returns to bitforms gallery in New York for a new solo exhibition, Found Objects. With a body of work spanning over 35 years, Hershman Leeson is one of the most influential artists working in new media today. The exhibition features a series of assembly-line produced female sex dolls examining projected fantasies and the mythology of artificial women. The centerpiece installation, "Olympia: Fictive Projections and the Myth of the Real Woman," restages Manet's 1865 painting by projecting images onto a reclined doll. The use of a traditional slide projector displaces and updates Manet's "Olympia," thereby creating today's readymade in a Real Doll version. Additional works include photographs exploring elements of fear and horror, and a doll called "Roberta Ware" virtually constructed in Second Life then realized physically.

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