DANA SHERWOOD, THE CAKE EATERS NEW YORK
Dana Sherwood, Other Dessert Landscapes (still), 2021. Digital video. Edition of 5 + 2 APs. Dana Sherwood The Cake Eaters NEW YORK June 17 to August 12, 2022 Opening Reception: Friday, June 17th, 6 to 8 pm What if I didn’t have a human mother? What if I had a horse for a mother? What if I was nurtured inside of a horse? From there my mind always goes to the forbidden fruits of decadent desserts and confections and cakes that we don’t really allow ourselves to eat on the regular so, that’s how the inside the belly of a horse series came about, and after examining my relationship in particular with horses and also this entire bestiary of animals that are really important to me symbolically. — Dana Sherwood, 2021 The conflation between food, women and sex has become almost commonplace. The commodification of both food and women produces a symbiotic relationship between the biological desire to consume food and the physical and psychological desire to consume wom