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Mabel Longhetti

Site-specific installation, 2019.


Plastic sheets, wood, nylon strings, plexiglass, and cloth.
Dimensions variable.


Installation at Brussels gallery weekend as part of ‘Fried Patterns’, a group show curated by Tenzing Barshee.


Mabel Longhetti, 2019. Plastic sheets, wood, nylon strings, plexiglass, cloth. Dimensions variable (installation view Fried Patterns, Brussels gallery weekend 2019. Curated by Tenzing Barshee). Mabel Longhetti, 2019. Plastic sheets, wood, nylon strings, plexiglass, cloth. Dimensions variable (installation view Fried Patterns, Brussels gallery weekend 2019. Curated by Tenzing Barshee). Mabel Longhetti, 2019. Plastic sheets, wood, nylon strings, plexiglass, cloth. Dimensions variable (installation view Fried Patterns, Brussels gallery weekend 2019. Curated by Tenzing Barshee).

Mabel Longhetti is a site-specific installation: a ceiling-mounted wooden beam supports a mobile of nylon threads that suspend sheets of transparent plastic at staggered heights. A length of gold fabric fringe weaves through the lines and plastic. At the centre stands a clear acrylic (Plexiglas) display pole, its top cracked and the fragments held together with clear parcel tape. Positioned beside the windows, the ensemble reads like a dismantled, ghostly spiral staircase and borrows the rhetoric of a deserted fashion-shop display. The work was presented during Brussels Gallery Weekend 2019 in ‘Fried Patterns’, a group exhibition curated by Tenzing Barshee. The title comes from Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence (1974), whose unstable grace haunts the piece.