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Molly Surazhsky, Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes (2019). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Baba Yaga’s Adornments (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Babulya (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Babulya (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Babushka’s Medicine Cabinet (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Babushka’s Medicine Cabinet (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Island Care (Year 2100) (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Island Care (Year 2100) (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Salta (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Molly Surazhsky, Witch Weed Lady with Bloodstone, Motherwort, Boldo, Milk Thistle, Chaga, Buckthorn, Hibiscus, & Rose (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.
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Responding to contemporary crises through the matriarchal science fiction imaginings of Molly Surazhsky’s Mashacare exhibition

, 30 September 2019
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Molly Surazhsky‘s Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes solo exhibition was on at Los Angeles’ Hunter Shaw Fine Art, running July 14 to August 18.

Molly Surazhsky, Salta (2019). Installation view. Image courtesy the artist + Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles.

With textile works inspired by Russian Constructivists Vavara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova, the show imagines a matriarchal science fiction floating city named Mashacare, updating Constructivist utopianism in line with more dystopian contemporary crises of capitalism, climate change and erosions to healthcare. As noted by the press release, the exhibition “combines a collective, utopic cynicism with an ode to the invisible labor of women”.**

Molly Surazhsky’s Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits, & Weirdoes, was on view at Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, running July 14 to August 18.

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