Artist: Dominique White
Exhibition title: Destruction Of Order
Venue: VEDA, Florence, Italy
Date: May 3 – July 20, 2024
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and VEDA
Taken from the title of the 2006 compilation album by Underground Resistance, The Destruction of Order is a continuation of White’s exploration of the end of the Nation-state through a cannibalistic prophecy which was first explored during her German debut, When Disaster Strikes in late 2023 In the last throes of Western empires, White again asks, “Can the Master’s tools dismantle the Master’s house?”.
White does not ask this question expecting an assimilative outcome to using the master’s tools. No, instead she ponders this question looking at self-sabotage or annihilation as the likely outcome drawing on maritime disasters, corrupt algorithms and outsmarted systems as her starting points. Instead, she rehashes this question as “What happens when the predator is hunted using its own tools?”.
Destruction of Order presents a graveyard of pathetic traps crushed under the weight of the Shipwrecked, the only survivors of the collapse.
Dominique White (born 1993 in the UK) is a graduate of Goldsmiths University of London and Central Saint Martins. Her recent exhibitions include Destruction of Order, VEDA, Florence (2024), Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea, Ica Philadelphia, Philadelphia (2024), When Disaster Strikes, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster (2023), Phantom Sculptures, Warwick Arts centre, Coventry (2023), May you break free an outlive your enemy, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2023); Statements, Art Basel, Basel (2022); Love, Bold Tendencies, London (2022); cinder‘s of the Wreck/les cendres du naufrage, Triangle France, Marseille (2022); Techno Worlds, produced by Goethe-Institut, Art Quarter Budapest (2021); Possédées, MO.CO, Montpellier (2020–21); Boundary + Gesture, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2019).
