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Agathe Snow’s installation is a power-packed conglomeration of trash picking, found objects, and her own form of kinetic sewing collage, that together creates the inside of the belly of a baby whale. Entitled “Sludgie, the Whale,” the work takes its title from a name given to a real baby whale stranded in the Gowanus Canal, near the Brooklyn Harbor. An apocalyptic air permeates the piece and signals what an urban atmosphere might be like if it encountered a natural disaster. Recalling Jonah, Pinocchio, and Moby Dick, all of which could be alle- gorical metaphors for this installation, the work reaches for repentance and ends in deliverance, and symbolizes the terror of questions, the blight of potential disaster, and the omnipotence of nature. Devon Dikeou |