Daily News | Zoe Leonard’s ‘Strange Fruit’ art installation stars heaps of 20-year-old decaying produce
Fruit evokes reflective memories of those already lost and raises unsettling questions about time and mutability and the purpose of a museum — that impermanent temple of cultural permanence and stability.is intended to decay, although it didn’t start out that way. Leonard consulted over the course of several years with her friend, the preservation expert Christian Scheidemann, known for his wizardlike conservation talents applied to everything from doughnuts to liverwurst.Strange Fruitto decay.
“The organic process of living isn’t always trackable in a completely linear way,” she said, “because of the existence of memories, false memories, histories, known histories, experiences, the way that we sort of layer time and experience it multiply.
The pieces are already desiccated — Leonard dried the skins before working on them in the 1990s — and they are inflexible and becoming more prone to breakage over a “long arc of time,” said Cuffari. The greatest danger and challenge comes from potential insect infestation. No signs of that over the last 20 years, however, she said.
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