TPLRDR Stereographically Reprocessed I VII incorporates seemingly polar extremes of the ontological axis – hoarding and VR – opposing the overactualized to the purely virtual. Tofighi's photographic VR reproduction of an actual hoarder's home suggests that the two phenomena are linked existentially and epistemically. The hoard which renders a home uninhabitable appears here tied to mounting terror around the crisis of homelessness which removes the body from the home entirely, exposing it to the 'outside', the violence of the street, and tying it to virtuality, the disappearance of 'actual' objects and enclosed space. Fullness and alienation, the fullness of terror in Freud's 'unheimlich' (unhomely), and the 'uncanny' emptiness of VR are linked. The piece also suggests the ongoing critique of materiality in art rooted in twin exhibitions by Arman and Yves Klein, 'Full' and 'The Void', one filling, the other emptying the space of Iris Clert's Paris gallery.
-Scott Benzel from Hoard Inaugural
3/25/2021
