Caroline Snow and Bozidar Brazda

We lived like this for months, roaming the mountainside, snarling, drooling, fucking the dirt, stoned on bitter peyote that grew by the fistful...

For their first collaborative exhibition, artists Caroline Snow and Bozidar Brazda take a page from Snow's zineFeral Child and use it to conceive of a vaguely anthropomorphic sculpture and sound work. The sculpture is assembled from stacks of 2 X 4 studs and plywood and suggests both makeshift shelter and proto-Juddian sarcophagus. A soundtrack — appropriated from a youtube video of a child mimicking a dog's bark— illuminates our instinctive need to convert nature into art. Both the shelter/tomb, and sound work, propose the art viewing experience, at least in part, as a means by which to circumvent life (television being a common example of this same phenomenon) in favor of a safer, cleaner proxy. And suggest that art is ultimately designed to shield humanity from the dirt of its wild roots. And by default, from its collective inner feral child.

Caroline Snow (b.1982) Lives and works in New York Bozidar Brazda (b.1972) Lives and works in New York

Caroline Snow and Bozidar Brazda
THE FERAL CHILD HAS NO USE FOR ART