Jeremy Mende: Untitled (This is a metaphor, No. 3)

Curator. San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries: Grove St. Window Installation Site. March - June 2015

Jeremy Mende’s new site specific Grove Street Window installation, Untitled (This is a metaphor, No. 3), is the third installment of an ongoing series of works that reframe everyday objects in order to reveal distinct tensions that shape our identities, anxieties, and relationships. At the center of Mende’s installation is a 20 ft. inflatable dancing figure, the kind used commercially at car dealerships etc., however his figure’s head is permanently attached to a short tube on the opposite side of the gallery space. Bent in half and flailing wildly, Mende’s character is simultaneously hilarious and pathetic in its Sisyphean attempts to become free. A counter keeps track of the remaining life of our comitragic character. Performances accomapny the opening (inflation) and closing (deflation) of the exhibition.