Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 6pm - 9pm
Scott Benzel, Patricia Fernández, Hailey Loman, D'Ette Nogle, Mungo Thomson
Curated by Eric Kim
“… [I]ndividual experience is clearly inseparable from the culture in which it is constituted. This truth is in fact at the root of the most beautiful mysteries of life. Thus, in our intermediations, we can share with one another an immensely rich history of experience and reflection. Yet as individuals, at the same time, we may run the risk of losing a sense of personal identity, and growing blank in the process—like the postcard photographer's gaze as he captures his empty images.”
- Allan McCollum
History is frequently a commodity for consumption with which contemporary mythologies are created. Collections and their subsequent modes of presentation indicate the interrelatedness of makers and consumers of culture. Memories of events and systems of cataloging collide with economic and political forces, generating a common narrative that replaces truth with mythology.
In the group exhibition And yes, I even remember you., artists employ various strategies to discern the innumerable narratives intersecting at the point where cultural history is created. Each acts as an interlocutor intervening in the exchange of ideas and memories, within respective contexts of shared culture.
Scott Benzel, L'Affaire de La Chasse spirituelle, 2014
books: La Chasse spirituelle Arthur Rimbaud, Mercure de France, Paris, 1949
La Chasse spirituelle, pastiche rimbaldien, Arthur Rimbaud, (pseudonym of Nicolas Bataille et Akakia-Viala) Plon, Paris, 1954
Famous All Over Town, Danny Santiago (pseudonym of Daniel Lewis James), New American Library, 1990
Love and Consequences, Margaret B. Jones (pseudonym of Margaret Seltzer), Riverhead, 2008
Hailey Loman, Hillside Memorial, 2014, wood, plastic, 6’ x 7” x 11.25" and Hillside Memorial Text, 2014, archival box, plaster, 8“ x 7.25” x 6“
(detail) Hailey Loman, Hillside Memorial, 2014, wood, plastic, 6’ x 7” x 11.25"
Scott Benzel, Op. 19, "Stockholm", 2014, baby grand piano, packing blankets, plastic, framed metallic c-print of Patricia Hearst's hands
(detail) Scott Benzel, Op. 19, "Stockholm", 2014, baby grand piano, packing blankets, plastic, framed metallic c-print of Patricia Hearst's hands
Scott Benzel, Op. 19, "Stockholm", 2014, baby grand piano, packing blankets, plastic, framed metallic c-print of Patricia Hearst's hands
Hailey Loman, Mount Zion, 2014, wood, cement, brass, 6’ x 7” x 11.25" and Dennis Hall, 2014, wood, cement, brass, 6’ x 7” x 11.25"
Scott Benzel, Magnified / Erased, 2014, electron microscope photograph of a flake of cocaine from the book Magnifications, video of rotoscopic erasure of a flake of cocaine from Neil Young's nostril from the film The Last Waltz, flatscreen, media cart
Patricia Fernández, Points of Departure (between Spain and France): Port Bou-Cerbere-Bordeaux, 2012, Mahogany, oil paintings, charcoal, fabric, postcards and other various documents from the reconstructed archive
(detail) Patricia Fernández, Points of Departure (between Spain and France): Port Bou-Cerbere-Bordeaux, 2012, Mahogany, oil paintings, charcoal, fabric, postcards and other various documents from the reconstructed archive
Patricia Fernández, Points of Departure (between Spain and France): Port Bou-Cerbere / First Walk, 2014, Walnut wood, glass, oil painting, rocks, drawings and various documents from the reconstructed archive
(detail)Patricia Fernández, Points of Departure (between Spain and France): Port Bou-Cerbere / First Walk, 2014, Walnut wood, glass, oil painting, rocks, drawings and various documents from the reconstructed archive
Mungo Thomson, Inclusion (An Acheulian Cleaver), 2014, Lucite embedment, 12-1/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2”
Mungo Thomson, Inclusion (The Cosmos), 2014, Lucite embedment, 12-1/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2”
Mungo Thomson, Inclusion (Two mathematicians), 2014, Lucite embedment, 12-1/4" x 9-5/8" x 1-1/4" and Inclusion (The Cosmos), 2014, Lucite embedment, 12-1/4” x 9-1/2” x 1-1/2”
D'ette Nogle, Eric Kim's Social Calendar, July 18 - August 30, 2014