Topless Turn Mixes Marx & Mary Poppins
The New Year was emphatically ushered in the other night at Sophie Jung’s richly idiosyncratic and packed-out performance, which accompanied her sculptural installation Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water (until 13 January) at Blain Southern in London. Wearing a “topless†body suit, complete with prominent nipples that simultaneously shielded and caricatured her body, Jung delivered a free-wheeling and often very funny narrative monologue, rich in wide-ranging reference and word play and triggered by the ideas and back stories imbedded in her surrounding sculptures.
