I Can See Your Underwear: Kelly Lycan and Natalie Purschwitz (2011)

Title: I Can See Your Underwear: Kelly Lycan and Natalie Purschwitz

Publisher: Centre A

Year: 2011

Price: $3.00

Size: 9 x 6 inches / 26 x 15 cm

Description: i can see your underwear; was a site-specific installation by Vancouver based artists Natalie Purschwitz and Kelly Lycan. Focusing on a ubiquitous but ideologically charged material-plastic-the artists will examine the relationship between material culture and mythology. During a three-month production residency, the artists have accumulated and arranged a vast array of plastic materials that are being re-activated as installations. The title, i can see your underwear, hearkens back to schoolyard taunts, suggesting a momentary spectacle, both shameless and shameful depending on one’s position. Like the emperor and his new clothes, the metaphoric transparency of the materials belies its true nature, and while we are seduced by its colourful cheer we also come to realize that we are frolicking in our own demise.