Flaming Furbelows

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From inside fleshy mounds of fur and yarn, Marina Vendrell Renaut's soft sculptures emit eerie music-box squeals, not unlike a wind-up-doll soundtrack to a horror film. Using minks from cast-off fur coats spliced together with stuffed animals and yarn balls, Vendrell's plush and bulbous monstrosities offer up wooly orifices and suggestive pleasures that might make you feel a tad dirty for desiring their tactile charms. Kate Eric's Bug Wars invoke similar unsettling dioramas of violence and seduction, as their other-worldly insects wage battles across landscapes of post-apocalyptic glee and Dr. Seussian wonderment. Snaking lines and figures creep through surreal pastures of gelatinous dread, suggesting an unhinged children's book dissolving into prickly delights and scabland nightmares. Taken together, these artists present visions of a phantasmic post-natural world, where desire warps into perverse narratives and cross-contaminated forms.

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