MICHAEL HAUSSMAN’S “GRAVITY” FEATURED IN LA WEEKLY
10 Great Artworks At Art Platform Los Angeles Art Fair
BY SHANA NYS DAMBROT
3. Michael Haussman At Young Projects Gallery
This dispatch from the ugly/sexy aesthetic wing of modern art comes courtesy of video-centric Young Projects Gallery, which presented a series of large-scale video pieces distributed throughout the fair. Considering his career as a commercial, video, and fashion editorial director, it is perhaps not surprising that Haussman would utilize both cutting-edge software and his up-close look at body-image obsession to create this super-creepy video work that transforms footage of a model jumping on a trampoline into an unsettling meditation on the effects of gravity (and by extension, the ravages of aging) on the female body.
