RECOMMENDED If you want to keep your warm and fuzzy feelings about babies, stay away from Rafael Rosario Laguna’s full-frontal assault on sentimentalism, in which he combines a sculptural tableau of a thousand halved blue glass egg shells sprouting tiny plastic babies in every conceivable awkward and askew posture, with color photographs that hone in on the sculpture’s details and two videos of the same zooming in and out of a turbulent visual storm. The photos evince most perfectly Laguna’s concept that whether or not we admit it, the “pool party” of life renders us fragments of a chaotic crowd—isolated, helpless and yet strangely beautiful in our glowing imperfect profusion, and perhaps destined one day to unite, although one should not count on it. (Michael Weinstein) Through October 18 at MOKA GALLERY.
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