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For Alraune, with love considers the role of woman as witch and her embodied relationship to the domestic garden. Prosch explores related plant folklore, specifically the legends of the Mandragora root and the Arbor Tristis (Tree of Sorrow). Reflecting on these gendered visions offers connections between witchcraft, the body in nature, and loss. The title of the exhibition is drawn from the German novel Alraune, a gothic tale inspired by the legend of the humanoid-shaped Mandrake root. The exhibition’s fleshy palette sets the scene for an abject carnality. The body is positioned as self-becoming rather than as the object of desire typically found in androcentric cultures. For Alraune, with love highlights the power of disorder, grotesque beauty, and monstrous capability. The exhibition includes new video, drawing, photography and sculpture works. The artist will also host a plant sale in the garden on Saturday, March 26th to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.
For Alraune, with love, installation view
Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, 2016
Altar table (bone, makeup, flesh)
Wood, marble, paint
22 x 22 x 30”
Untitled (skin rack)
Steel, plastic, casters, latex
17 x 34 x 44”
Commensal mediums
Archival Inkjet Print
29 x 43”, with frame
Arbor Tristis (Tree of Sorrow)
Gouache on paper
9 x 14¼”, with frame