Downtown, Los Angeles
Chris Domenick & Em Rooney
After The Sun
The Vanity Easthttps://vimeo.com/181127632 The days of carry-on. When people still flew, and traveled long distances on foot. When the atmosphere was prophylactic. Carted around were burial urns with their ritualistic herbs, the patterns of decorative Kaboodles, specialized art-crates with interlocking interiors and ergonomic handles, disposable USPS parcels, the size and scale of which were best suited for stacking and transportability. Now, mutually reliant objects (goods, their containers) have become sisters in the landfill. This closet is a morgue for a bygone, unruly dilemma: how to designate space, keep the moths out, and preserve these relics from detrimental oils. Like a baby’s bronzed bootie it will only seem old to those in the future, but never to the baby. After the river, the sun. After the sun, the seeds. Each object connected to the living memory of an ancestor; Louise Bourgeois, Dick Cheney, David Hammons, Margaret Thatcher, Genesis P-Orrdige, Terr, and Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The custom containers for these hats, once imbued with the status of disparate and marginalized labor, here compose a dysfunctional yet interdependent family, singing in an eternal choir.