Patte Loper

Patte Loper

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    • Salt Marsh Deep Time Study Center (Institute of Contemporary Art at MECAD) 2023
    • Laboratory for Other Worlds (Bellevue Arts Museum) 2022
    • Laboratory for Other Worlds (Mattress Factory) 2019
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    • After Lebbeus, A Model for Drawing (Drawing Center) 2014
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    • Paint Collection Platform (Millay Colony) 2013
    • Untitled Worktable: A Plea for better Leaders in the Form of Automatic Sculpture (Platform Gallery) 2013
    • Archipelago (LMCC) 2012
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Psychic Corporeal Map: Hell
2020-2022
Oil paint and graphite on handstitched canvas designed to folded
Detail

The Hell Psychic Corporeal Map Panel is based on mythological images of the European world mountain. The mountain is shown as hovering in the air, made from an enormous pile of waste material emanating from the centralized, rational individual who sits in the center of geometrical garden paths. Just as this individual’s defecation is creating the world mountain, his breath is creating a cloud of industrial pollution topped by the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. Circled around are the creatures of the world, bleached to white, and chained to a monument representing financial and hegemonic world order. Around the outer circle are human remains, indicators of the endgame, zero-sum logic of mass consumption and inequity.