Untitled, 2012
Ceramic, 45 x 58 x 27 inches

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all images courtesy of the artist and MOCA

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Commissioned by curator NEVILLE WAKEFIELD to make a piece for the George Herms: Xenophilia exhibition at Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art last year, MELODIE MOUSSET created a ceramic blanketed figure attempting a yoga pose in Downward Dog and taking inspiration from the relief ornamentation of FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’s Ennis House in Los Feliz, Los Angeles:

It’s not the house, it’s the pattern. I have this thing, like in THOMAS PYNCHON novels, where I see signs and I have to follow them—even if the signs are totally absurd. I saw the pattern and it felt like I was discovering it before anybody else. – MELODIE MOUSSET

Watch MELODIE MOUSSET in the Ennis House taking a clandestine swim and working on the piece, here