Carsten Höller vs Jamie Bochert | Lachlan Bailey | The Last Magazine #7
/In this preview from the current issue of The Last Magazine, photographer Lachlan Bailey reinterprets Carsten Höller’s recently closed exhibition “Experience” at the New Museum on model Jamie Bochert . Stylist Alastair McKimm helps create this colorful, dreamy, fairytale-like revisit of the Belgian artist’s most comprehensive US exhibition yet, using lots of fashion artistry from Balenciaga and Junya Watanabe.
Read on for an overview of the Carsten Höller: Experience exhibition:
Originally trained as a scientist, Höller is frequently inspired by research and experiments from scientific history and deploys these studies in works that alter the audience’s physical and psychological sensations, inspiring doubt and uncertainty about the world around them. His work often draws on social spaces outside of the museum such as the amusement park, zoo, or playground, but the experiences they provide are always far from our usual expectations of these activities. Höller’s art takes the form of proposals for radical, new ways of living by creating sculptures and diagrams for visionary architecture as well as transportation alternatives, such as his renowned slide installations. These concepts may seem impossible in the present day, but suggest new models for the future.