The Contem­porary Austin, Jones Center

Monika Sosnowska

Habitat

22.11.2016 - 26.02.2017
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Habitat
Installation view
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Habitat
Installation view
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Habitat
Installation view

For Habitat at The Contemporary Austin – Jones Center, Sosnowska’s largest monographic exhibition to date at a U.S. museum, the artist has created an immersive, two-floor installation of dystopic domesticism. In the building’s lobby, Untitled, 2015, a gargantuan plantlike structure, pushes upward and outward, the illusion threatening to outgrow its glass containment. Beyond this, the entirety of the first floor features Antechamber, a labyrinthine series of constructed, angled walls, zigzagging through the building and reconfiguring the space.

Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Habitat
Installation view
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Habitat
Installation view
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin
Habitat
Installation view
Photo: Colin Doyle, Courtesy: The Contemporary Austin