Lost in My Life (Chiral Lines 3)

Rachel Perry

2016

Pigmented ink print on paper

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

In her series titled Lost in My Life, Rachel Perry (Born 1962 in Tokyo) “pirates” her own bodies of work and redeploys them in the context of performative self-portraits. For Perry, these works pay homage to “the endless organizing, cleaning, and shopping that form the business of living.” Invested in a rigorous yet playful conceptualism across her practice, Perry uses what she calls the “detritus of everyday life” as both material and inspiration. Between 2014 and 2016, Perry embarked on a series of Chiral Drawings as an attempt to make a drawing using every single pen, pencil, crayon, colored pencil, and marker she owned. Chiralit