Only You Can Complete Me - Louise Mutrel art works in seeming contradictions

works in seeming contradictions

from Marianne Moore (1961) to Maxine Groffsky (2017) – by way of Katherine Anne Porter

immersing oneself in an artificial environment

Cause Man Steel is chasing a mad vision: a national donkey transport scheme that will guarantee his people’s independence forever

Only You Can Complete Me - Louise Mutrel art works in seeming contradictionsOnly You Can Complete Me is artist Louise Mutrel's first book, the result of fieldwork conducted in Japan on dekotora, heavily customized trucks that have become icons of a flamboyant mechanical subculture. Between aesthetic obsession and popular craftsmanship, the book explores a phenomenon that is both marginal and deeply identity based, where excess becomes a language and tuning a manifesto.