Securing Transactions: Martine Syms at Bridget Donahue

DOUBLE PENETRATION reads the orange shipping tape that wraps, secures, or embellishes the majority of the sculptures on view (all works 2021) in Martine Syms’s show at Bridget Donahue. Abbreviated DP, the term shares an acronym with Dominica Publishing, the name of Syms’s imprint, emblazoned on the other, blue shipping tape similarly wrapped around table legs, adhered to sculptures, and cut up in collages. These colorful insertions look like stickers for a streetwear brand, wryl