The exhibition Doch bitte aber takes a position of affirmative negation, or negative affirmation, an obdurate turn of dumb stubbornness. To over-complicate things, to worry, to continue one's route despite proof positive of an easier way. The three artists in the exhibition take such an approach to imbibing and recomposing the surrounding world: whether materially, conceptually, or visually. The presented works model, chronicle, and reconstitute the tenuous condition of the community at work, the muddling of space between pedagogy and production, and the dysfunction of progress in a dismembered society.
Impossibility is taken as a matter of fact, a delightful circumstance of representing and regurgitating reality at different scales of accuracy. Futility can be achieved. It is such an insistent course that art may follow or direct, even in the most ill-fitting of shoes.
Hardly Futile, 2018, Exhibition view.
Hardly Futile, 2018, 800cm x 250cm x 140cm. Wood, ripstop, rayon fringe, dried sausages, chains, rope, string, plastic spring toggles.
Kill me now, kill me later (I - V), 2018. Polyurethane coated viscose, polyurethane foam, mixed textiles.
Kill me now, kill me later I (epaulettes), 2018
Kill me now, kill me later IV (nose), 2018
Kill me now, kill me later II (sleeves), 2018
Kill me now, kill me later III (tulle), 2018
Kill me now, kill me later II (tongue), 2018
Untitled (Regulations: Dress Parade), 2018
Untitled, (Model for a parade), 2018