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Article: Prosthetic devices for a global walker recent works by Kinga Araya.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Kinga Araya is a Polish-born artist who defected to Italy in 1988 and is presently based in Montreal. This piece reflects on the videotaped performances, sculptural objects and drawings shown in her first solo show at Galerie Christiane Chassay.
The earth is a boiled egg. An eye. ball in a laboratory jar. A jellied orb, it wobbles in empty space, lolls like a drunk. Kinga Araya knows this and she is prepared. She has adapted her walking shoes; moulded them in steel, shaped them like two halves of a chocolate egg. Her feet have left soft impressions in their centres so she can slip into them quickly, anytime. Wearing them, her gait becomes the to-and-fro of a ...