Decorative Protection | Sculpture & Photography
The Veneer of Decorative Protection
2011
Ziperstein’s site-specific photographs of a distorted figurative sculpture is treated as sculptural protection between the private and public world—concerned with the aesthetics of domestic and commercial security. Through collage aesthetics, Ziperstein created connections between site, economics and class. Ziperstein’s figurative sculpture, appropriated from a 1980s wrought iron window bar advertisement directed at Angelinos, is concerned with the aesthetics of domestic security. By depicting a life-size, suspicious female homeowner decorated by her own protective window bars, an unnerving parallel between excess and fear is established.
