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Contemporary Investigations in the Southern USA
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2019
I’M A HUMAN BEAN
Devil’s Pie
2018
Satin + Bubble Wrap ≠ New Confusion
SALT WATER AND SWEET CAKES
25 Hours A Day
Their Summons Called…
Put the Painting in its Coffin
Thirst Trap
Whether delight or repulsion first comes to you as you approach Heath Flagtvedt’s strange goo says more about your diet and hormones than it does about the things he has a hand in making. Flagtvedt’s plastic-based sculptural works and membranous digital prints alike result from his commitment to a particularly intuitive and gestural kind of process art. He sets up base rules for himself and his generative systems, whether the computational parameters and functions that generate the prints, or the physical application of a heat gun to colorful plastic table covers and straws that brings forth the sculptures. Like a maniacal product-tester, or the Yahweh of Job, he subjects his materials to the stresses of heat and pressure and the inclinations of his own hand, working at the threshold at which the plastic begins to degrade and deform. These biomorphic pillars and crispy organs are the fruits of an anaphora of actions—through the body, out of the body, away from the body, back to the body. They’ve been fished out of a Jungian stew of muscle memories, heavy reading, constant curiosity, close observations, and a dancing id. They’re like creatures from our dreams, tagged on the ears and long abandoned,…
2017
Gimme Shelter
(Untitled) How Does it Feel
Along Orange Marmalade
Mystic Stylez
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