I am Dead

2017

Decker Gallery at MICA

Baltimore, Maryland

I am Dead is a site specific installation created for the Decker Gallery at Maryland Institute for Contemporary art as part of the Soundheims’s Semi Finalist Exhibition. The installation consisted of a custom made autopsy table/beach lounger and two video works. A monitor playing the video work, Watermelon Makeover sits on top of the lounger and features a 20 minute loop of a watermelon receiving a makeover. I am Dead video is featured on the painted wall above the lounger and features a makeover on a dead girl with intermitted text. The audio component is a church organ playing Abba’s S.O.S.