The Work of Max Streicher thrives through displacement. Inflatable white objects hang listless and large, they loom over the viewer, imposing on the space they lie. It is through their great mass that they give reference to the body. Their forms juxtapose dream-like-qualities, make believe and the hereness and now of the body. "Objects can be animate, where toys, images and abstractions represent (the very things we are most familiar)"(Streicher 10). Through this, Streicher attempts to recreate the childhood experience : forcing the viewer into a tight imposing space reflecting fairy tales and fables: the viewer becomes a child among giants, like Jack and The Beanstalk. The bodyness of his work gives reference to the briefness of life, through the body heaves to the metronome of fans and the flimsy fleshyness of white shiny silk.
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