James Hegge: Paul Rodgers/9W. (New York).(Brief Article)

James Hegge's first solo show in New York comprised three sculptures, two series of drawings, and a video, all related to real or imagined performative actions. Megaphone for Speaking to the Wall, 1999, is a forty-inch-long fiberglass-and-resin con with an opening at its vertex, a foam gasket around its base, and two rough handles halfway between.

The object at first seems absurdly whimsical, then turns darkly cartoonish when one imagines it in use, since the wall fancier's words would only be trapped in the vacuum and throw back into his or her face. Similarly, Conversation Tool, ...

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