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Overduin & Co. presents Welcome to L.A., a group show curated by John Burkhart of artists Genoveva Filipovic, Morag Keil, Matthew Langan-Peck, Richard Maxwell, Win McCarthy, Lise Soskolne, Bernadette Van-Huy, Andy Warhol, and Ingrid Wiener.
The exhibition presents a topography of artists who, with various degrees of distance, engage critically with the strangeness of contemporary cultural life, with its phenomena of online, micro-cultural vitriol, neo-homesteading, glamour modeling turned adventure vlogging, or agonic narratives around climate, health or hygiene. Despite a shared, total state of exception ushered in by the global pandemic, there persists a lack of narrative consensus from which to establish shared reality among groups. For these artists, then, the narrative of cultural life today may resemble a dystopian fiction in which common culture has been replaced by sub-groups, like sub-Reddits, of increasingly atomized tribes, LARPers or insurrectionists, each inhabiting mutually exclusive narratives of what is real.
Accordingly, the exhibition is grouped not around a single thematic topic but rather by subtle affective affinities among these artists, who work between Europe and New York in various media, from sculpture to painting to video. Welcome to L.A. shows these artists employing poses of humor, disaffection, and irony, sometimes expressed through low-fi techniques such as weaving or handmade sculpture, to engage seriously with the backwater of contemporary cultural and political life. Amid the backdrop of a monumental new history painting by Richard Maxwell depicting the events that took place on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol, the artists manifest complex ideas of agency, criticality, complicity and retreat alongside the abnormality of the present.
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Overduin & Co. presents Welcome to L.A., a group show curated by John Burkhart of artists Genoveva Filipovic, Morag Keil, Matthew Langan-Peck, Richard Maxwell, Win McCarthy, Lise Soskolne, Bernadette Van-Huy, Andy Warhol, and Ingrid Wiener.
The exhibition presents a topography of artists who, with various degrees of distance, engage critically with the strangeness of contemporary cultural life, with its phenomena of online, micro-cultural vitriol, neo-homesteading, glamour modeling turned adventure vlogging, or agonic narratives around climate, health or hygiene. Despite a shared, total state of exception ushered in by the global pandemic, there persists a lack of narrative consensus from which to establish shared reality among groups. For these artists, then, the narrative of cultural life today may resemble a dystopian fiction in which common culture has been replaced by sub-groups, like sub-Reddits, of increasingly atomized tribes, LARPers or insurrectionists, each inhabiting mutually exclusive narratives of what is real.
Accordingly, the exhibition is grouped not around a single thematic topic but rather by subtle affective affinities among these artists, who work between Europe and New York in various media, from sculpture to painting to video. Welcome to L.A. shows these artists employing poses of humor, disaffection, and irony, sometimes expressed through low-fi techniques such as weaving or handmade sculpture, to engage seriously with the backwater of contemporary cultural and political life. Amid the backdrop of a monumental new history painting by Richard Maxwell depicting the events that took place on January 6, 2021 at the US Capitol, the artists manifest complex ideas of agency, criticality, complicity and retreat alongside the abnormality of the present.
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