Erika Verzutti’s Material Tricks
Mariana Fernàndez, Frieze
July 2023
The first major US survey of the artist’s work at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, is a joyful display of her syncretic ways of making.
Erika Verzutti’s The Dress (2015) comprises a pair of thick bronze wall reliefs, identical save for their colour: one is painted gold and white; the other black and blue. If the palette seems familiar, it might be because you recall the image of a dress – white and gold or black and blue, depending on your perspective – which went viral the same year, sparking an epistemic crisis about how unstable and subject to interpretation the world is. […]