CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/13/2016

Goshka Macuga: Before the Beginning and after the End

Featured image is an installation view of Goshka Macuga's 2016 To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, fabricated from a fascinating list of materials including an android, plastic coat and enormous handmade shoes—one of which is made from expandable foam, the second of which is made from cardboard and linen. On view through June 19 at Fondazione Prada, the robot "recites and rehearses a monologue constructed from numerous excerpts of significant speeches—an architectural composition of ideas that refers to the relationship between Ars memorativa (the art of memory) and artificial intelligence." It is reproduced from Prada's accompanying 300-page, atlas-like monograph, Goshka Macuga: Before the Beginning and after the End—the perfect companion to Macuga's first solo museum exhibition in New York, on view now at The New Museum.