In the show SIGHS AND LEERS AND CROCODILE TEARS—now in its final week in Los Angeles—Sula Bermúdez-Silverman “explores the expansive use of monsters ––in particular zombies–– and haunted spaces in the horror genre as metaphors for the actions societal systems inflict upon groups of people on a spiritual and physical level.”*
SULA BERMÚDEZ-SILVERMAN—SIGHS, AND LEERS, AND CROCODILE TEARS*
Through April 10.
Murmurs
1411 Newton Street, downtown Los Angeles.
Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Sighs and Leers and Crocodile Tears, Murmurs, Los Angeles, March 7, 2021–April 10, 2021, from top: Porthole 2 (Parentheses of Blood), 2021, isomalt sugar, found object; Paradise Regained, 2021, isomalt sugar and glass found object; The Monster’s Bride (She’s Alive!), 2020, wool and viscose yarn; Repository II: Dead Ringer, 2021 (detail), glass, Himalayan pink salt, water; installation view with (foreground) Turning Heel, 2021, Himalayan pink salt, isomalt sugar, glass found object, (center) Repository I: Mother, 2021, isomalt sugar, Himalayan pink salt, epoxy resin, found object, and (against wall) Lady with the Ring, 2021, glass, carpenter bee; Carrefour Pietà/Be My Victim, 2021 (detail), wool and acrylic yarn; To Fear a Painted Devil’s Trumpet, 2021, Himalayan pink salt, kosher salt, sea salt, glass, carpenter bees, crushed emerald, Devil’s Trumpet seed pods (Datura inoxia), Devil’s Trumpet seeds (Datura inoxia), raw sugar; Porthole 6 (Julian’s Hatchet), 2021, isomalt sugar, epoxy resin, transparency film. Images © Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, courtesy of the artist and Murmurs.
