Contemporary Art

Symbolic Excess

posted on Mar 4, 2021

Alicia Renadette’s work—ranging from sculpture/installations to costume design and performance—are amazingly complex and analytically organized psychological, ecological, and social statements on the prevalence of mass-consumption and materialism in Western culture. Her works critique traditional notions of femininity and domestic bliss in the objects she combines, such as discarded afghans, household product containers, plastic flowers, and faded drapery fabrics.

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