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Store Space, Kingston, NY — August 5 – September 12, 2021

Curated by E.S. Mahler. See press release here.

F Attitudes (#1, #2) are an exploration of Salvatore Ferragamo’s F Heel and different types of mobility. The sculptures are actual size versions of Ferragamo’s famous heel, sculpted with appendages to highlight where pressure occurs on certain areas of the foot, and covered in suede flocking used in retail display.

The accompanying short video commercial, F Attitudes (#1, #2), uses found text from commercial aviation manuals, birth control manuals, and interviews with telephone operators in the 1970s, accompanied by hand gestures that ambiguously “present” or “demonstrate.” In the language of both an instructional video and an advertisement, the work remains inconclusive about the dynamics of the relationship between fashion and infrastructure.