Ilona Szwarc: Virgin Soap
831 N. Highland Ave Los Angeles, CA 90038
Saturday, September 4 at 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Ends Oct 9, 2021
September 4 - October 9, 2021 Photographs and sculpture by Ilona Szwarc. The Polish American artist documents herself casting a model’s torso in silicone and plaster. A female artist with a focus on self-portraiture, Szwarc draws on her ongoing fascination with doppelgängers. She explores themes of identity, transformation, and the dopplegänger - an inquiry rooted in her immigrant experience. Szwarc’s work is concerned with rendering her experience visible in a way impossible in language. Here, the artist plays Pygmalion, unsure where the boundary lies between the real and the fake.
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