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Scattered across the floor: ... the sculpture of Colleen Wolstenholme.

Sculpture is scattered across the gallery floor, large plaster replicas of prescription pills. Mostly sedatives and anti-depressants, they are objects with soothing, wellness-designed names: Paxil and Prozac, Valium, Xanax and Zoloft, names like strange planets, other and utopian worlds. Egyptiform after the early modernist manner of Gaudier-Brzeska or Duchamp-Villon, the carved white ellipses are engraved with occultish hieroglyphics, corporate pharmaceutical trademarks that are no less refined than the objects themselves, signs of ownership, allegiance and addiction. The sculpture is by turns satirical and melancholic, at once comically utopian and hopelessly pessimistic. It ...

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