Amputee
Asher Hartman provided the following description of works from the “Amputee” series for “Until we come to one that reminds us.”
Curt LeMieux’s sculptures and mixed media drawings allude to the witnessing of bodily trauma within the tragedy of mediated warfare, linking barbarity to everyday cultural referents--remnants of curtains, socks, pencils, and shoes. Materials are handled with a delicate aesthetic that opens up a place into which the sense of both the disjunction and union of violence and security can flow. Surveying LeMieux’s small drawings and sculptures, one has the sense of the viewer as mute witness to a concatenation of banal and terrible events that have been reviewed, acknowledged, and dismissed.
