SOS (2021)

SOS 2021 was presented as part of This End the Sun on view at the New Museum from June 30October 3 2021 Strafers SOS 2021 interweaves fantastical scenes with the artists autobiography to address themes of human cruelty power and futility The work cycles through scenes of night and day with dolls as protagonists a girl seemingly stranded on a snowy beach an elderly man on a medical stretcher and two EMTs who attend to him Strafer employs strategies of doubling interchangeability and scale shifts with large hands occasionally swooping down to animate caress and bathe the dollsperhaps in acts of care andor control New Museum