Tanya Brodsky

Pacific Design Center 1, 2024

Tanya Brodsky investigates the poetics of malfunction and the material residues of built environments. Her practice mines the tension between archeological artifact and commercial display, evoking a haunting intimacy with spaces we pass through daily but rarely consider. Pacific Design 1 (2024) is part of a series of drawings of doorknob displays at high-end architectural hardware stores, based on snapshots taken by the artist on site. Brodksy explains, “Both the display and the photographs of it deal with some disembodied version of a similar utilitarian object: one before it enters its regular function, and one after. To me, the drawing/ photo and casting play similar roles in terms of generating an isolated imprint of an object.”

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