Plastics
September 5-Oct 1, 2009 One Woman Art Show by Midori
Artist's Statement

Where: Femina Potens Gallery,
2199 Market St @ Sanchez
www.feminapotens.com femina_potens@yahoo.com

Opening Reception Sept. 19, 7:30pm
Artist Discussion Panel for Press & Members Sept 19, 6pm

Description:
Femina Potens invites you all to question your notions of beauty, desire, waste, and repulsion through art. We currently live in a hustling human hive that practices mass production and consumption. On many levels we live in a fast paced, "to-go" culture: dinner in a bag, spray tans, water in a bottle, injectable beauty, and sex on the Internet. While conveniently comfortable, this fast and disposable state shapes who we are as a society. This September, artist Midori explores and questions these ideas in 'Plastics', her latest one-woman show at the Femina Potens Art Gallery.

Author, educator and artist, Midori, is turning the gallery into a delightfully disturbing plastic sanctum, predominantly utilizing the iconic blow-up doll. No one ever admits to buying these dolls, let alone using one, and yet they are produced in vast quantities, in the sweatshops of developing nations. Constructed to represent a fetishized image of desire, the dolls in turn are produced and fed to a hungry society of insecurity and fear. In this interactive installation Midori critiques and revels in all things beautifully grotesque.

Intentions:
We invite you to put your feet up and sit on a couch made entirely of blow-up dolls! Rest your bum in front of our mirror boudoir and try on some new pretty plastic looks! Listen as headphones in the shape of silicon breasts hug your ears! Join us in experiencing both delight and pathos at Midori's 'Plastics' installation.

Remind yourself why it is important to recycle at our 'Plastics' opening reception Saturday, September 19. Join Midori for an insightful Artist Discussion Panel for Members and Press at 6pm, followed by an Opening Reception at 7:30 pm for everyone. Come for refreshments and cutting edge art at Femina Potens' latest exhibit.