Genesis Belanger makes surreal magic of everyday items. Her ceramic and mixed-media installations, created at her Brooklyn studio, reimagine household or natural objects, underpinned by an unsettling play between attraction and disgust. ‘I try to hover in this repulsive, seductive state,’ the artist tells me, when we speak ahead of her solo show, ‘In the Right Conditions We Are Indistinguishable’, opening at Pace, London.
Husband Material is a sculptural shopping bag of groceries that appears frozen mid-collapse. An open packet of biscuits teeters out the right-hand side, as the bag flaps at the front. If this movement were to continue, the bag and its contents would tumble clumsily to the floor. Cause and Effect features a hoover expressively consuming a length of rug. In Family Portrait, a domestic cupboard is filled with various bottles, topped by a fresh sandwich.
