Heidi Aishman: You Can’t Win That!
Installation view, Heidi Aishman: You Can't Win That!
Photo courtesy Gallery Stokes.
I was intrigued to hear about Heidi Aishman’s show, “You Can’t Win That!” at Gallery Stokes. As a child, I had an obsession with stuffed animals (what little girl didn’t?). I was always on the hunt for new additions to the collection. In a nutshell, the essence of Aishman’s show is just that: her obsession with the claw machine, the prizes contained inside, and the endless hunt for stuffed animals.
The claw machine, often found in arcades, supermarkets, or movie theatres, has a notorious reputation for its difficulty and (especially for fiscally concerned parents) for being a waste of money. Aishman states that her current work is about the desire for the unobtainable — after being told that she too would never win the claw machine. While entertaining and optimistic, the show also relies heavily on ideas originated in the Dada movement of the early 20th century, such as chance and the readymade.
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