THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Dubbed a “mysterious California conceptualist”, many of Bacher’s better-known projects are made from stuff scavenged from thrift stores, materials from the ‘70s such as pulp fiction, porn, and off-color joke books, the detritus of the post-counterculture moment.  By using these materials, mostly unaltered or transferred to different media (e.g., a book page blown up to gallery-art size), Bacher probes not just their peculiar pop-cultural imaginaries but the question of “voice,” of whose voices or selves these are – since her own work is all about ventriloquism.

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