laundry with a friend. 6ft x 15ft x 15ft.
polyester shirts hang color coded on clotheslines. 2010
Ayala and Waller address the satisfaction and frustration of household chores and implements by taking the vocabulary of housework—hanging laundry out to dry, setting up the ironing board, putting out platters for a meal—and remaking it or overdoing it. Instead of one ironing board they use five, and they position them at all angles such that ironing would be impossible. And rather than filling platters with food, they stack them into candy-colored towers. The materials are right but the placement and combinations of them are wrong for domestic work. They are rendered useless while simultaneously useful in new ways as building blocks for a mountain, a miniature monument, or an invented other.
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The Housewife's Lament
or 'useless infatuation' installation project
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