Museum installation /// Christine Corday: Protoist Series

Christine Corday: Protoist Series, Selected Forms is the artist’s first solo presentation at an American museum and the culmination of her work replacing the paintbrush with the heat of a plasma torch. Corday coined the term “protoist” to describe forms in and out of a solid state, and a series of works in which she aims to suspend the moment between sensory perception and definition.

Corday draws on her diverse studies in astronomy, cultural anthropology, chemistry, and the science of sensory perception, and her sculptures possess an archeo-astrological quality, as if they were left behind and unearthed. The two artworks on view in the exhibition, UNE and KNOUN, exist as recording devices; every handprint that touches them will appear over time as rust, mapping an intimately individual yet shared public surface.

More information on the installation: http://www.lacma.org/video/past-exhibitions