The Giant’s Foot ScrubberSquare Street Gallery
The Giant’s Foot Scrubber brings together works by Gianluca Crudele, Alice Dos Reis, Chan Ka Kiu, Sissi Kaplan, Andrew Luk that address the suspension of disbelief, the occult, and landscape.
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986), Le Guinn compares stories to gathering vessels, bags that carry grains that make a world. She writes, “Finally, it’s clear that the Hero does not look well in this bag. He needs a stage or a pedestal or a pinnacle. You put him in a bag and he looks like a rabbit, like a potato.” She asks us to consider the myth (or the necessity) of the hero and its ramifications. What kind of stories do we want told? Do we only want a story about triumphs? Do we want stories that create pedestals? Or do we want stories that are fashioned as carrier bags: intricately woven but holding things, one next to the other, as human lives usually are?