Soft Broken Mirror

Al Freeman (born 1981, Toronto, Canada) makes large-scale soft sculptures depicting quotidian objects such as pencils, soda cans, or a lava lamp, rendering them in malleable tactile materials. Drawing from an endless well of imagery and the further reaches of the internet, Freeman artfully disempowers often male- coded artifacts, finding a formal elegance in the detritus of everyday life. For Under a Loggia, Freeman has created a sequence of brand-new works, immortalizing variously, a shattered mirror and a pack of cigarettes.