Before the opening of her solo show, artist Olivia Erlanger calls up her friend Aubrey Plaza to talk haunted housewives and utopian futures.
isn’t interested in imagining dystopia. The New York artist is far more preoccupied with what she calls a “suburban noir” fantasy. Accordingly, over the past decade, her practice has flirted, utopically, with what the American dream defines as “home,” beyond the domicile. But despite her boredom with doom-and-gloom speculation, Erlanger first met her friend, the actor, under some pretty post-world circumstances.
ERLANGER: Oh, we could definitely make it happen. When I went, I’d never been to Houston and I fully envisioned, like, mesas, Wile E. Coyote, red desert, but it is just so humid and lush. It’s a very cool city. ERLANGER: It really depends. This time, I met with the curator, Patricia Restrepo, in 2021. We did this studio visit and she said, “If you were to be working on a big project, what would it be?” And I literally was like, “I have worlds inside of me.”ERLANGER: Well, maybe it’s like gestation or something, but I didn’t know how to articulate what I wanted to make. I just knew that there were all of these stories to tell. Then I didn’t hear from her for a year and I was like, “Okay, cool. Flopped.
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