Everything's supposed to be bigger in Texas, but the stars of this week's Dallas Art Fair are positively infant-sized, putting even the toddlers of Seoul Fashion Week to shame. The hyperrealistic work of multimedia artist Rachel Hovnanian, they're gathered in an installation called "Perfect Baby Showroom," a "laboratory meets shopping mall" for parents to construct their perfect child. Visitors are free to pick them up from their eerily homogenized boxes, where bags of colorful, conventional cereals-another product of genetic modification-act as pillows. As usual, Hovnanian's tasked herself with inciting conversation, and only two days in, her technology-focused solo booth with Leila Hellery Gallery certainly has already caused a lot of rubbernecking, both in person and on Instagram.
Steph Eckardt