Alexandra Loewe
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Contemporary conceptual art too often follows a formula in which the artist presents works in a variety of media that float around some topic but make no real statement. Alexandra Loewe’s mixed-media show at Flatfile, “While Dreaming,” doesn’t present a cogent view of dreams, but she adds an exciting spatial-performative element: it’s as if her imagined body were filling the gallery. The walls are covered with highly personal works–including Sleeping Outfits, a display of Loewe’s pajamas and nighties–that surround 13 shoe boxes containing miniature beds, while beside them are framed texts chronicling her dreams. The linens on the tiny beds (and in the nearby photos of beds she’s slept in) are slightly disheveled, adding to her implied physical presence just as the texts bring in her unconscious.
When Through 10/28
