Gigantic

Maybe it’s partly due to technology, or the global proliferation of biennials, or even a newish style of exhibition that the art critic Peter Schjeldahl dubbed “festivalism,” but more and more artists have been producing work on an extremely large scale. Given its own cavernous galleries, how could the Soap Factory not offer its own take on this trend? All around this erstwhile industrial space, stupendously large art stretches out and makes itself comfortable. Travis Graves’s industrial trees turn the very joists and floorboards of one gallery into the ghost of the forest they once inhabited. Elsewhere, Tamara Albaitis lets visitors travel the paths of a pulsating maze suggestive of either veins or bowels, which would make the viewer either blood or, uh, bodily waste–your pick! Even Jinnene Ross’s crochet project eschews daintiness: She works in hefty white rope. McKendree Key takes her gallery space and divides it in half–horizontally. In all, the projects in this show make us wonder: If supersized food makes our bodies bigger, how will viewing of supersized art affect us? 110 Fifth Ave. S.E., Minneapolis; 612-623-9176; www.soapfactory.org