Whitney Biennial 2026 | Art & Artists
Through Aug 23
Whitney Biennial 2026 | Art & Artists
Anna Tsouhlarakis (she/her)
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Anna Tsouhlarakis plays with the language of classical monuments, specifically End of the Trail, a 1919 sculpture by James Earle Fraser that presents a Native American man on horseback slumped in exhaustion. Overturning stereotypes, Tsouhlarakis offers an irreverent image of a female warrior armed with a mix of the mythical, the mundane, and the humorous, including spears, a wrench, menstrual cups, IKEA furniture, an Elder Wand that references Harry Potter, and a cartoonish cloud of inflated condoms.
Anna Tsouhlarakis juega con el lenguaje de monumentos clásicos, específicamente en Fin del sendero, una escultura de 1919 de James Earle Fraser que presenta a un jinete nativo americano desplomado por el agotamiento. Dejando a un lado los estereotipos, Tsouhlarakis ofrece una imagen irreverente de una mujer guerrera armada con una mezcla de lo mitológico, lo mundano y lo humorístico, incluyendo lanzas, una llave inglesa, copas menstruales, muebles de IKEA, una varita mágica que hace referencia a Harry Potter y una nube caricaturesca de condones inflados.
SHE MUST BE A MATRIARCH, 2023
Anna Tsouhlarakis, SHE MUST BE A MATRIARCH, 2023 (detail). Fiberglass, paint, adhesive, resin, plaster, plastic, wood, foam, metal, IKEA remnants, leather, deer hair, prophylactics, and found objects, 96 × 180 × 48 in. (243.8 × 457.2 × 121.9 cm). Collection of Hood Museum of Art, purchased through the Virginia and Preston T. Kelsey 1958 Fund, the Julia L. Whittier Fund, the Acquisition and Preservation of Native American Art Fund, the Alvin and Mary Bert Gutman 1940 Acquisition Fund, the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker '58 Acquisition Fund, and the William B. and Evelyn A. Jaffe Fund. © Anna Tsouhlarakis. Image courtesy MCA Denver. Photography by Wes Magyar