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Chris Schanck, Mortal Bench Lamp Steel, wood, polystyrene, polyurea, resin, aluminum foil, 2022.
Chris Schanck: A Surreality
A Surreality features the latest creations of Detroit-based artist and designer Chris Schanck, whose work reveals a collection of fantastic objects, sculptures, and furnishings that explore the expansive nature of science fiction, myth, and fantasy in crafting our reality. Located in MOCAD’s Woodward Gallery, a former auto showroom, A Surreality mirrors the nostalgic allure of 19th-century display techniques through an aesthetic guise of mythical and otherworldly motifs. An avid consumer of science fiction, Schanck’s distinctive design practice prioritizes imagination over functionality and celebrates the transformative power of extraordinary experiences and otherworldly narratives. Works are presented as imagined relics from the artist’s dreamscapes or sur-reality—a term coined by André Breton, the French writer and co-founder of the Surrealist movement, and defined as a space where artists create fantastical visions through irrational or unnatural combinations and juxtapositions.
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