Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThis ambivalence deepens Ms. Simmons’s art and keeps it from falling into simplistic agitprop. As she progressed, Ms. Simmons broadened her vocabulary by acquiring new tools and props: color Cibachrome prints, rear-projected backdrops, digital manipulation. Ms. Simmons plays a woman, stalled in her personal life and artistic career, who spends a month in a borrowed country house to regenerate. “When I got the call that Sarah had died, there was complete shock and also the thought, ‘I’m going to make my movie,’” Ms. Simmons said. “Plastic has been such an incredibly key part of what I’ve done,” Ms. Simmons said.

Source: New York Times April 27, 2018 09:01 UTC