Her work in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection was created by casting a discarded cooler in glass, a technique that is typical of her practice. “Casting a recognizable form in a material that is antithetical to its function forces you to renegotiate your understanding of the object,” she explained to Bawa. “Because of their context and the fact that they no longer function in the way you originally understood them, you have to shift your relationship to them. And when they’re placed in a space where you are only allowed to look, and not touch them, you become aware of them in a different and more engaged way.”
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