Postcards from Disneyland

In 2015, SF MOMA commissioned Kate Durbin and artist Rollin Leonard to create an artwork. They decided to conjure cryptic new Disney characters (ghosts) in Durbin’s studio, then sneak projection equipment and slides of those characters into Disneyland park, where they projected the ghosts onto the surfaces of iconic structures like the Matternhorn and the inside of Monstro’s mouth, and rephotographed them. Strangely, no one seemed to notice these hauntings as they were happening, perhaps accepting them as an organic part of the park—except for the Evil Queen from Snow White, who shouted (while in character) “what are you doing?” as they projected a strange new princess with a broken dollar store tiara and an apple choking her mouth onto the facade of a bathroom in Fantasyland.

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