Michelle Uckotter. Dust Box

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Uckotter's mysterious, darkened interiors draw the viewer into a fascinating world of distorted perspectives and enigmatic narratives.  In some works, the human presence is implied, in others the scene is populated by a doll-like female protagonist. With influences as diverse as Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, and Japanese and American horror aesthetics, Uckotter's cinematic narratives are at once sinister, seductive, and even humorous in their embrace of a camp sensibility.  

‘’Each fragmentary scene from Michelle Uckotter’s Dustbox teases out psychosexual drama yet eludes narrative deciphering. Her paintings of spatially dizzying interiors, populated by figures strewn about like dolls, reverberate with the creak of a high heel against a rotting floorboard. Uckotter constructs these rooms on the verge of collapse, like women on the verge of a nervous breakdown.’’ - Daisy Sanchez