Manhattan Oil Project

This second installation of The Last Lot project is composed of two new monumental kinetic sculptures, each standing 25 feet tall. These full-scale sculptures are inspired by mid-20th century oil pumps the artist discovered in Electra, a boarded-up town once famous for being the pump jack capital of Texas. The pump jacks recall the ruins of ghost towns, forgotten monuments of America's decaying industrial past. Josephine Meckseper has developed a practice which melds the aesthetic language of modernism with a profound critique of consumerism. In her shop windows, vitrines, installations, photographs, films and magazine projects she draws a direct correlation to the way consumer culture defines and circumvents subjectivity and sublimates the key instruments of individual political agency.

Presented in partnership with Art Production Fund