Doreen Garner
HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark
For the past few years, Doreen Garner has used the violent medical history of slavery and colonialism as a starting point for mixed-media sculptures that frequently contain body parts cast in silicone and urethane plastics. Of the three wall-mounted sculptures that made up Garner’s exhibition “Steal, Kill and Destroy: A Thief Who Intended Them Maximum Harm,” one two-part work was exhibited here for the first time. For Roughly Documented, Three Million Eight Hundred Ninety Four Thousand and Fifty Six, 2021, Garner stapled together a Portuguese flag from pale, skin-like strips of silicone. Beside