grimboy

source: artnet

Swathed in black with fuzzy face and dangling dreads, Lara Schnitger’s Grim Boy is the epitome of skulking teenager: grody, rank, and insipid. Draping fabric over a wooden frame base, Schnitger perfectly captures the awkwardness of physical development, disproportioned and gangly, torso bugling with the remnants of puppy fat, head thrust forward in a spit of aggression. Her jostling laugh at pubescent boorishness turns quickly to horror. In the light of Columbine, and the recent spate of goth gang murders and suicides, adolescent angst poses as real threat, a demon seed bread from cultural anxiety.
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source: saatchigallery

Born in 1969, Haarlem, Netherlands
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Amsterdam
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source: modernedition

Born in Haarlem, 1969, Lara Schnitger lives and works in both Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
Working mainly, though not exclusively, with textiles, Schnitger is best known for her large-scale sculptures created from knitted and sewn fabrics.
She uses these chosen materials to create unexpected, highly idiosyncratic forms often combined with appliqued texts.
Totemic in structure and scale with an absurdist edge, Schnitger’s work literally brings new dimensions to the use of domestic fabrics.