“She represents us—an idealized us—with all of our body dysmorphia and best and worst qualities, warts and all. That’s who we are as consumerists, which is filled with those contradictions.”
– Sculptor
Tom Sachs, discussing Barbie, whom he interprets as “a spaceship, because she’s a vessel for genetic code.“ Beyond his recreation of the iconic blonde, other ‘spaceships’ in his
eponymous current exhibition include the
Titanic and the Technics 1200 turntable.
