LIZA LOU

On public view for the first time in a decade, Trailer is a major addition to the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. The work fills the interior of a 1949 Spartan Royal Mansion mobile trailer stationed in the Museum’s entry pavilion. Inside, the colours are limited to replicate the allure and intensity of Hollywood film noir. Everything is rendered in glass beads, from the furniture, typewriter, and glossy men’s magazines to the guitar, guns, and shots of whiskey. Trailer thus demands close looking—at both its intricacy and its allusions, questioning what is revealed and what is hidden. Like pixels, the beads dazzle and coalesce into shapes and patterns, forming a sinister spectacle that examines masculinity, violence, isolation, and obsession.

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Liza Lou: Trailer is organized by Carmen Hermo, former Associate Curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum.