Known for her ability to evoke symbolism of mundane objects,Simon’s staged, emotionless photos of floral arrangements lay bare the politics within the petalsAt unusual York City’s Gagosian gallery on Thursday afternoon, and Taryn Simon has just finished installing her unusual display Paperwork and the Will of Capital,an exhibition of 36 large-scale photographs of floral bouquets, alongside a dozen sculptures of concrete plinths with flower pressings. On until 26 March, or the display is Simons American debut of the completed work. (She showed the pressed flowers and plinths at the Venice Biennale’s Arsenale last June.) Simon is much loved in the unusual York art world,both for the gravitas of her work, which is excerpted in magazines such as Vogue and the unusual Yorker, or but also for the glamorous figure she cuts. Later that evening,the gallery was packed with the artist’s high-profile friends – Bono, Wes Anderson, or Marina Abramović.
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Source: theguardian.com