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Abigail Goldman’s American Horror Story
Her new show, “State of Nature,” depicts our depraved moment in miniature — literally.
Abigail Goldman’s micro-renderings of scenes of carnage, created at 1:87 scale, are a testament to the pull of the small, especially at a time when art is getting bigger and more elaborately produced. A masterpiece of the genre is Hell,by Jake and Dinos Chapman, a series of containers configured in the shape of a swastika depicting thousands of Nazis being impaled, tortured, and torn apart by tiny demons. But the best of her ghoulish work has the feeling of films like Fargo or The Florida Project, a nether zone where everything is intricately suspended in its own atmosphere and restrained to the point that it comes across as fiction in the guise of documentary.
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