Rochelle Goldberg: The Plastic Thirsty

<p>In Rochelle Goldberg’s exhibition <em>The Plastic Thirsty</em>, sculptures of aquatic beings are served up as interlocutors addressing a complex set of relations. In one instance, a severed fish head resting in a pan simmers in a dehydrated landscape, provoking the basic question of how a head without a body came to be. For Goldberg, thirst, a biologically vital need, is central to this examination, driving both animate and inanimate things. The fish in Goldberg’s exhibition operate in the ambiguous space of need, both as entities that have independent lives and requirements of their own and as commodities for human consumption and use. As the exhibition title suggests, the artist’s forms and materials are expressions of deficiency—corporeal and alimental—and provoke the urge to reverse it…</p>