{"id":20459,"date":"2015-03-31T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=20459"},"modified":"2015-03-31T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T09:01:44","slug":"laurie-simmons-at-the-jewish-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/laurie-simmons-at-the-jewish-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny Valley Girls: Laurie Simmons at the Jewish Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20462\" alt=\"Laurie Simmons, How We See\/Tatiana (Pink), 2015. Pigment print, 70 x 48 (178 x 122 cm). Copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/TJM_654_SimmonsHowWeSee-008-Tatiana_Pink-Copy.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"645\" \/> Laurie Simmons, How We See\/Tatiana (Pink), 2015. Pigment print, 70 x 48 (178 x 122 cm). Copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94.<\/p>\n<p>One of the largest challenges facing computer animation and robotics today is the phenomenon known as &#8220;uncanny valley&#8221;, a pseudo-scientific term used to describe the visceral aversion felt by a viewer in the face of an artificial human. This intangible life essence has become the unsurpassable gap between creating that which is life-like and that which is alive.\u00a0It is this uncomfortable aesthetic slippage between artificial and the natural that Laurie Simmons examines in &#8220;How We See&#8221;, now on view at the Jewish Museum in New York.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the scientific community works to create fiction that seems fact-like, humans are undergoing their own bionic transformations, often adopting increasingly digital characteristics as means to achieve a heightened beauty: image filters, Photoshop adjustments, plastic surgery and additive cosmetics are each ways in which we are able to control, adapt and alter our own human form.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20460\" alt=\"Installation view of Laurie Simmons: How We See, March 13, 2015 - August 9, 2015. Copyright the Jewis Museum, NY. Photo  by: David Heald. Art copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/20150309_tjm_654LaurieSimmons_001.jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"484\" \/> Installation view of Laurie Simmons: How We See, March 13, 2015 &#8211; August 9, 2015. Copyright the Jewis Museum, NY. Photo by: David Heald. Art copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94<\/p>\n<p>Having previously delved into the world of Doll Girls, a subculture that includes cosplay, kigurumi, and other female driven dress-up fantasy worlds, Simmons always uses her subjects to create photographic series that are meticulously crafted and thoughtfully feminist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How We See&#8221; further considers the relationship between appearance, reality and fiction, using live models and the unimpeachable studio portrait to address poised femininity and the malleability of persona. For this small but fierce exhibition of large-scale photographs, six women are each posed individually and styled plainly in front of florescent fabric backdrops. The paired down appearance and high-saturation ever so slightly edges its way into the realm of sci-fi. This is underscored further by the model\u2019s tromp l\u2019oeil eyes painted atop their closed lids. The result is a collection of beautiful women staring dead-eyed past the camera\u2019s lens. Each is eerie, otherworldly, and most definitely uncanny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20461\" alt=\"Laurie Simmons, How We See\/Edie (Green), 2015. Pigment print, 70 x 48 (178 x 122 cm). Copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/TJM_654_SimmonsHowWeSee-004-Edie_Green-Copy.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"645\" \/> Laurie Simmons, How We See\/Edie (Green), 2015. Pigment print, 70 x 48 (178 x 122 cm). Copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94.<\/p>\n<p>The painted eyes allow for the women to be perky yet vacant, constantly at attention yet not truly focused. Their blindness gives them the passive power of being seen rather than the active power of seeing. All the while, the viewer is able to examine the dead-eye girl with the cool cognitive dissonance of an unimpassioned spectator, and for once, understanding the relationship between &#8220;How We See&#8221; and how we&#8217;re seen.<i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Text von <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/devon-caranicas\/\">Devon Caranicas\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/tag\/devon-caranicas\/\"><strong>&#8220;How We See&#8221; by Laurie Simmons is on view until 9 August, 2015 at the Jewish Museum in New York.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mehr: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/03\/the-triumph-of-a-heart\/\">why Bj\u00f6rk belongs in the MoMA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More: Koki Tanaka wins the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle award for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/showroom\/2015\/03\/a-vulnerable-narrator-koki-tanaka-wins-artist-of-the-year\/\">&#8220;Artist of the Year&#8221;.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20466\" alt=\"Laurie Simmons, How We See\/Ajak (Violet), 2015. Pigment print, 70 x 48 (178 x 122 cm). Copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/TJM_654_SimmonsHowWeSee-003-Ajak_Violet.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"645\" \/> Laurie Simmons, How We See\/Ajak (Violet), 2015. Pigment print, 70 x 48 (178 x 122 cm). Copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie Simmons, How We See\/Tatiana (Pink), 2015. Pigment print, 70 x 48 (178 x 122 cm). Copyright Laurie Simmons, courtesy the artist and Salon 94. 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