Judith Hopf, “Alifi”

You’ve heard of brick-and-mortar stores? Meet brick-and-mortar sculptures. Berlin artist Judith Hopf uses these materials to transform the familiar (hands, feet, soccer balls) into the architecturally odd in order to comment on the relationship between individuals and the built environments they inhabit. Hopf’s New York debut continues in the same vein, presenting, among other objects, giant pears and a huge wall that looks like a bite has been taken out of it. Talk about shitting a brick!