Carter Burden Gallery
On the Wall: I Am The Octopus
- Vicki Khuzami
- Vicki Khuzami
Vicki Khuzami explores the theme of obsessive collecting in her installation I am the Octopus in Carter Burden Gallery’s On the Wall public space. The two 8-foot long paintings span opposite walls, each an expanse of sea green depicting giant tentacles wrapping around a dollhouse it has discovered at the bottom of the ocean. A life long collector the artist identifies with the Cephalopoda since it too amasses treasured objects to bring back to its den. Khuzami describes, “With its eight arms and huge eyes, the octopus glides through the waters touching and feeling everything it comes upon while it searches and hunts... The octopus is highly curious and endlessly wonders about the properties of the objects it comes across, how it can be used and enhance its life.Therefore, the Octopus and I are one.”