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Its the whole kitchen sink, as she puts it.
Am I disillusioned right now and heartbroken and totally freaked out?
Yeah, she says, taking a break from installing her new show at Lehmann Maupin gallery in Chelsea.
Using DIY press badges, she even infiltrated Tea Party rallies.
I have a laminator, she says simply.
Ive always been interested in how to be invisible in crowds and just react to those moments.
The only sound is a single match striking.
(The effect is produced digitally.
No modernist house was harmed in the making of this film, Opie assures me.)
The Modernistoperates on multiple levels.
It has almost too many metaphors in it for me!
Its about him destroying what he cant have, Opie says.
I mean, he sleeps on a couch.
Perhaps most potently, the piece confronts our cultures blurred line between fame and infamy.
Opie does not let her audience off the hook easily.
Opies work has been described as being about waiting, but longing may be more apt.
Thats what it is, Opie says with a deep-throated laugh.
That gender ambiguity underlines Opies assault on lazy assumptions.
We always think about good versus evil, she says.
(She plans to retire in 2022.)
Opie is passionate about the museum and its potential.
Vergne wasnt in that job much longer.
We voted for the best candidate who did the best interview, she says.
Hopefully the era of MoCA symbolically burning itself down is finally over.
I apologize to all those who follow me she is exploring other artistic impulses.
Lately, shes been preparing a collage project.
She notes that the religious right did an awfully good job of centralizing power in their churches.
But the left, she laments, we dont gather.
Shes been asked if shed photograph Trump rallies but is ambivalent.
I know that I can fit into that crowd completely.
I dont know if I want to give voice to [them].
I have my limits bearing witness, it seems.
