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Sophia Peer's installations invite you to a familiar place disguised and re-organized, where day-to-day reality has been brattishly mangled into a fiction that better suits her. Using video, sculpture, and photography, Peer stubbornly forces herself and others into false intimacies, highlighting relationships that aren't there while making unlikely emotional connections. Peer re-creates a sitcom scene with her real family, demands free potato salad from a bodega cashier while in her underwear, projects rambling paternal life-lessons from a crystal atop a pedestal—all in the service of identifying absurd (and, somehow, recognizable) desires, fears, and delusions.

Sophia Peer