Nina Levy
Every Little Thing You Do, 2000, resin, steel, automotive paint, 18" x 84" x 28"
I would like to determine if certain additions or subtractions to the human body might make metaphorical, or even practical, sense. I am interested in how the body can be monstrous and appealing at the same time.
In this sculpture, and in a series of Cibachrome photographs, I use sculpted objects and prostheses to explore these physical adaptations. Depending on one's perspective, they might improve or worsen the human condition.
In that Every Little Thing You Do combines both female and male body parts, it is more than the average human. It is also quite literally disabled. It might be simultaneously a platonic ideal of a hermaphrodite, a bisexual odalisque, and a practical disaster.
The title comes from the affectionate refrain of a Top-40 love song. Perhaps in this case, the phrase refers to an incapacitating attachment.
