From her wooden sleep..., 2013
Installation view: The Power Plant, Toronto, 2017
©Ydessa Hendeles
Courtesy the artist
Photo: Robert Keziere
Ydessa Hendeles
The Milliner’s Daughter
By Ashley Johnson
Art and life are intertwined in paradoxical ways. A picture has to find aesthetic stasis for completion, in other words it becomes still when balanced. It is the equivalent of death. The fascinating aspect is that art continues to reflect life. Ydessa Hendeles dances with a multitude of mute manikins in this enormous solo show, giving breath to an entire history and exhaling some of the artist’s past. …