Sabrina Chou

From the manufacturer:

The power source behind our mowers hasn't changed much in 100 years. It's still readily available on demand. You can still fuel it for the price of a banana and a glass of milk. It always works when you want it to, and it doesn't leave any residue for the environment to absorb other than a couple of footprints in a perfectly cut lawn. People—the power behind our mowers in 1895, and the power behind them today. What has changed is the product available to the people. At Great States, we've applied a century of technology to a good old-fashioned idea: the reel lawn mower.

Today's reel mowers are lightweight and easy to maneuver. They're ideal for today's smaller lawns, and today's hectic lifestyles. They're always ready when you're ready, and they're almost maintenance free with no spark plugs to foul or engines to clog up. They're good to the environment and they're good to the lawn, snipping the grass for a clean, precise cut. A cut that's helped us carve our niche as the nation's largest manufacturer of in-demand, on-demand reel mowers. We've spent 100 years of perfecting our reel mower designs, streamlining our production processes and searching for the best possible materials to build the best reel mowers possible. And we're proud of all that. But more important still, we've spent the last 100 years, and we'll spend the next 100 more, keeping America Green.*

Did you think it was going to be easy?
Look down. The astroturf beneath your feet is melting.

HR, ft. Great States Reel Lawn Mower
solo exhibition at Human Resources, Los Angeles, 2015

An exhibition of new work consisting of backdrops, equipment, furnishings, and clothing. The exhibition proposes an ambiguity around these objects, and how they might oscillate between aesthetic proposition, functional use, and absurd adaptation. Assembled around us, the works outline open-ended sets, figurative utopias, and allegorized landscapes. Somewhere between the field, the court, the lawn, the desert, the discotheque, and the office, our unattributed bodies can find vaguely open seats and space to move.

Full press release (PDF)
Exhibition check list (PDF)

With support from CBK Rotterdam.

*Text from the Great States Reel Lawn Mower product page on Amazon.com

"body here" / "things end earlier", Installation view.

"body here" / "things end earlier", Ink on paper, passe-partout, custom frames, pine wood.

"things end earlier"

"things end earlier"

"body here"

Fabrication 5. The Jogger, 310cm x 288cm. 100% cotton sweatshirt jersey, 100% cotton sweatshirt ribbed knit trim; found metal railing.

The Technical Area, Football goal post, net, nylon flag; 7 foot–8 pair, 100% cotton jersey, ribbed knit trim.

7 foot–8 pair

Adonis at the gymnòs, Gym bleachers, flesh pink spacer mesh, upholstery foam.

Safety Tape applicator, Plan AV104: Half court, Vinyl tape on floor, tennis balls.

Great States Reel Lawn Mower

SqFt, Grass sod inlaid into concrete floor. Dimensions variable.

Studio Dynamics: Old Masters, (11:10 loop). Digital video projection for tennis practice.

A floor called Exodus (after Mach 2), Vinyl tiles ('Exodus' pattern), sand, cactii, sunglasses display heads, concrete, leather, disco ball. Dimensions variable.