JAN MANCUSKA/ ABSENT

Mancuska used to build installations from the peripheral material of civilization (Q-tips, plastic bags, straw, paper, soap or wax) and his interest in authenticity relates to places with a similarly subtle but strong emotional-social charge (kitchens, bathrooms, housing projects and weekend cottages to name a few). Lately his approach has come to include use of language in site-specific insta llations--cutting texts into a wall or displaying a story in a space, he creates a tension between reading and seeing, verbal narrat ive and vi...[Read more]