Aria Dean • Chris Kraus • Bunny Rogers • Sturtevant • Martine Syms • Body by Body • Gardar Eide Einarsson • Hamishi Farah • Parker Ito • Jordan Wolfson
At this stageInstallation View
At this stageInstallation view
At this stageInstallation view
At this stageInstallation view
At this stageInstallation view
At this stageInstallation view
Martine SymsSome what?
2016
Window Vinyl
Dimensions variable
Martine SymsSome what?
2016
Window vinyl
Printed area: 75 x 170 in / 190.5 x 431.8 cm
STURTEVANTRock & Rap Simulacra Act 3
2013
Digital print on paper
Image size: 7.085 x 12.64 in / 18 x 32.1 cm, Paper size: 15.45 x 21.06 in / 39.3 x 53.5 cm
SturtevantWarhol Empire State
1972
35mm film transferred to digital
5 min 16 sec continuous loop
Courtesy Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Aria DeanDead Zone (1)
2017
Cotton branch, polyurethane, bell jar, wood, signal jammer
13.25 (height) x 12.5 (diameter) in / 33.7 x 31.75 cm
Aria DeanDead Zone (1)
2017
Detail
Hamishi FarahAleeyah or Repatriation for Hypervisibility
2016
Acrylic on canvas
72.45 x 48 in / 184 x 122 cm
Hamishi FarahAleeyah or Repatriation for Hypervisibility
2016
Detail
Parker ItoWestern Exterminator / Kernel Kleenup / Little Man/ Pesterminator
2013-2015
Bronze, aluminum, automotive paint, hydrodip print, anodized automotive parts
34 x 36 x 16 in / 86.4 x 91.4 x 40.6 cm each
Gardar Eide EinarssonFlagwaste (Stars and Stripes)
2016
Refuse collected from American flag manufacturers Dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Team Gallery
BODY BY BODYCafe U.S.A.
2015
High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame
48 x 36 x 4.75 in / 121.95 x 91.45 x 12.1 cm
BODY BY BODYCafe U.S.A.
2015
Side view
Chris KrausHow to Shoot a Crime
1987
Digital video
28 min 50 sec
Video still
Password: chateaushatto
Chris KrausTerrorists in Love
1983
Super-8 transferred to 3/4 video
5 mins 20 sec
Video still
Password: chateaushatto
Jordan WolfsonCon Leche
2009
Video animation, 22 min (loop), color, sound
Dimensions vary with installation
Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner, New York and Sadie Coles HQ, London
Bunny RogersMandy Piano Solo in Columbine Cafeteria
2016
Animated film
13 min 16 sec
Courtesy the artist and Société Berlin
Notes on the exhibition:
•from a physical position within the United States, assembling these works as a way to consider the violent intrusion of images and the assault of narrative structures on consciousness
•this form of violence is frontal and not physical
•it works by contamination, by breaking our cognitive immunities and operating not by a negative material effect but by an excess of the positive
•the overlap of the conventions that drive fictive fantasy (studio films) and conventions that drive event-derived information (news media)
•a question posed by manuel arturo abreu: “how can we consider the power of these images when we’re already under their influence?” (I don’t know)
•restless reproduction
•these questions announce themselves urgently and site-specifically in the United States, during a mass wading through conflicting currents, through the narratives that have been fattened, suppressed, squeezed out, swelled, merged, overlaid, edited, hacked
•from Baudrillard: “this constitutes a violent intrusion in the deep cells of our mental world and the deep cells of a society”
Image: Gardar Eide Einarsson. Flag Waste (Stars and Stripes), 2016. Refuse collected from American flag manufacturers. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Team Gallery.