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PENAL CODES
by jenxuto
Sterling Ruby at MOCA Pacific Design Center
June 19th, 2008 - September 19th, 2008
Posted
8/8/08
SUPERMAX 2008 makes a remarkable first impression. With a maximum-security prison as his touchstone, Sterling Ruby converts the MOCA gallery into a traumatic site of punishment – and an over-crowded one at that – filled with graffiti-covered plinths, spray-painted canvases, collages, glossy-drip stalagmites, and monumental wood diagonals. The result is a sort of maximalist institutional critique, by way of Michel Foucault’s Discipline... [more]
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