The Architect, Mind Falls Apart

source: artsynet

Exploring cultural phenomena surrounding mainstream cinema in America, Dora Budor creates sculptures and films that expose the technical and otherwise overlooked elements of movies. Budor most regularly engages with movie props—objects which are inherently fake or flawed, yet appear real and perfect on-screen—in order to “reanimate” them and give them a second life through recontextualization. “I’m interested in the technical processes behind the visual effects like prosthetics or makeup that are used to simulate bodily sensations … onto the screen,” she has said. A series of sculptures built around discarded movie props with artificial weathering, rust, and dust positions the objects as modern-day fossils. Budor views cinema through an anthropological lens, seeking to explore how people interact with films and the way that fictional characters become part of a collective emotional reality.
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source: swissinstitutenet

Dora Budor (b. 1984 in Croatia) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include Inhuman at Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2015); DIDING – An Interior That Remains an Exterior? at Künstlerhaus KM–, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria (2015); The Architect’s Plan, His Contagion and Sensitive Corridors at New Galerie, Paris (2015); Believe You Me at 247365, New York (2015); and Flat Neighbors at Rachel Uffner, New York (2014). Budor recently participated in panel discussions at the Judd Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York. She is a winner of the Rema Hort Emerging Art Award (2014) and is co-director of the project space Grand Century in New York.