In the background of Whitney, a hazy yellow flag signals “caution,” and the two iconic faces—of the museum building and the celebrity—are superimposed on what Euler calls “two variations on the idea of a human snail.” At left, a coiling human form bends backward in an extreme yoga pose, contorting to emulate and embody the structure of the Museum. Mimicking a spiraling snail shell, the figure rests—as does the Museum—atop a pedestal-like building, upending the usual molluscan morphology of body and shelter. The image on the right flips the stack: a nondescript spiral-shaped building encases Houston’s face, while pinned beneath it, a human form arches in a catlike stretch (yoga again).
Jana Euler
Jana Euler — b. 1982, Friedberg, Germany; lives in Frankfurt and Brussels Artist Page