Artists: Mathis Altmann, Das Institut & Allison Katz, Rochelle Goldberg, Juan Jose Gurrola, Julien Nguyen, Margaret Salmon, Oscar Tuazon
Exhibition title: DREDGERS ON THE RAIL
Curated by: Tyler Murphy
Venue: Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles, US
Date: July 26 – September 5, 2015
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
An encrusted pillar. A standing, lodged and vertical oak. Pierced through the body from above by a concrete column, entwined, locked and locking worlds together.
Provoking the limits of a form, contort or melt to move through. A patch of undead chia, a feigned arability, retreating from or pushing into life. Distant landscapes point at conflicting realities.
A coral swamp pulses in a violent thrust. Disorientation in a synthetic maze born from a path, trapped in place and presenting solace as if it were some kind of raft leading ahead in an effervescent flow.
Between the bait and the mouth. Iridescent jaws pierce water, leaping outwards and crashing to disperse a mist. Eyes sink to water level, a duplicitous vantage point. The flesh of mud on toes, slowly letting go into a tread, a submergence into a drifting dive.
A cocoon, one or many bodies nesting, a feverish molt. A chrysalis waiting to hatch and swarm. A reason for caution, care of the fragile panoply’s latent hatchling. A sign of a new inhabitant.
Sirens and tricksters, a languid social flesh of aggregate forms adorned at the end of a morass. A palace complex becomes an alcoved cell, a prison and a dwelling, forever dislocated in the depths. The light is a bait beckoning, to dive into a darkness, provoked by an angler.
Constrained and afloat, a body conflicted, twisted and spit out, dizzied in the rip. The net of an Other pulls and drags, caught and entwined, a moment of buoyancy in a departure. A hidden world of copycats reflecting an image of yourself. A piercing agent, the gradation of diminishing light. Vacating a bounded rationality to swim and build in an entropic swirl, and then coming home.
Midway through the exhibition, the work “Scattered A, Scattered K” (2012-2015), a collaboration by Das Institut and Allison Katz, will be removed from the gallery and brought to an off-site burial ground, left to decompose, and replaced by a video documenting the final passage of this work’s material life, which was first exhibited at Family Business in 2012 and then in Gaylen Gerber’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2013).
Oscar Tuazon, The Natural Man, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York and Los Angeles
Oscar Tuazon, The Natural Man, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Maccarone, New York and Los Angeles
Juan Jose Gurrola, Untitled, 1983
Courtesy of the estate of the artist and House of GAGA, Mexico City
Juan Jose Gurrola, Untitled, n.d.
Courtesy of the estate of the artist and House of GAGA, Mexico City
Juan Jose Gurrola, Untitled, n.d.
Courtesy of the estate of the artist and House of GAGA, Mexico City
Juan Jose Gurrola, Untitled, 1985
Courtesy of the estate of the artist and House of GAGA, Mexico City
Juan Jose Gurrola, Untitled, 1983
Courtesy of the estate of the artist and House of GAGA, Mexico City
Rochelle Goldberg, Is the Plastic Thirsty pt.1 & pt.2, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Rochelle Goldberg, Is the Plastic Thirsty pt.1 & pt.2, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Rochelle Goldberg, Is the Plastic Thirsty pt.1 & pt.2, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Rochelle Goldberg, Is the Plastic Thirsty pt.1 & pt.2, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Rochelle Goldberg, Is the Plastic Thirsty pt.1 & pt.2, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012-2015
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012-2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012-2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012-2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012-2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012-2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
DAS INSTITUT and Allison Katz, Scattered A, Scattered K, 2012-2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Julien Nguyen, Tamburlaine, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Julien Nguyen, Tamburlaine, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Julien Nguyen, Tamburlaine, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Julien Nguyen, Tamburlaine, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Julien Nguyen, Tamburlaine, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt
Rochelle Goldberg, Bait Bite Switch, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Rochelle Goldberg, Bait Bite Switch, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Rochelle Goldberg, Bait Bite Switch, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mathis Altmann, The Kloake of Envy, 2015 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist and Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Margaret Salmon, Oyster, 2014 (excerpt from film)
Courtesy of the artist and Office Baroque, Bruxelles
Margaret Salmon, Oyster, 2014 (still from film)
Courtesy of the artist and Office Baroque, Bruxelles
Margaret Salmon, Oyster, 2014 (still from film)
Courtesy of the artist and Office Baroque, Bruxelles
Margaret Salmon, Oyster, 2014 (still from film)
Courtesy of the artist and Office Baroque, Bruxelles
Margaret Salmon, Oyster, 2014 (still from film)
Courtesy of the artist and Office Baroque, Bruxelles
Margaret Salmon, Oyster, 2014 (still from film)
Courtesy of the artist and Office Baroque, Bruxelles