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1.28 - 3.24 at the luckman gallery california state university los angeles.
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"As strangers we all find ourselves in the world; we are all passing through. We all feel banished from Eden."
"The revolution is a suffocating embrace, nonetheless a warm embrace."
-Edmundo Desnoes
From the Introduction to
"Memories of Underdevelopment"
© gladys-katherina hernando 2011
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all we ever wanted was everything
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
November 5 - December 4 2010
Fia Backström
Shannon Ebner
Patricia Esquivias
Spencer Finch
Joachim Koester
Alice Könitz
Gonzalo Lebrija
Mathias Poledna
Danh Vo
Literary contribution by Michael Ned Holte
Curated by galería perdida
all we ever wanted was everything commissions nine artists to question the importance of the single
image. For this exhibition, a selection of diverse artists will design a single black and white image to
be produced as a run of one thousand posters, free for the taking. The resulting nine stacks without
context or explanation remain waiting as sculpture, installation, publicity. Which will be chosen? Which
will be favored and by whom? These images articulate episodic moments in history, abstraction and
storytelling, developing their own narratives as defined by their use. They represent an acknowledgment
of the poster's history from political tool to contemporary strategy. As such, they take on new meanings
determined by their new lives. The images are far-reaching, sharing between them interests in
photography, text, and formal properties as well as revisiting a populist form tethered to its social,
cultural, and political roots. These stacks parallel our desires, as they are subject to change: on a wall, in
the trash, wrapped around a present...
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Marcus Civin is proud to host an exhibition by galería perdida,you dream of better things, a new project at the Prop Shop, Civin's studio in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles.
The exhibition consists of a series of choreographed non-linear slide projections which interweave apparitions of a proposed utopian community with narrative fragments of a fictional woman's journey through displacement, industry, and luxury. In the mid-1960's, this imagined community was designed to be incomplete, always testing and showcasing new technologies. This beacon of a better-organized-tomorrow, living simplified by technology, forever improving, perfection just out of reach, remains a stirring counterpoint, fiction, and anathema to everyday reality; it represents a significant historical attempt to technologically enhance routines, and demonstrates a philosophical impediment to the human ability to imagine and actualize positive futures immediately.
you dream of better things will be accompanied by a limited edition broadsheet with essays by Marcus Civin and Betsy Seder. This September, join us in MacArthur Park, grab a cold drink from the fridge at the Prop Shop, and stay for a while.
September 4, 6-9pm.
The Prop Shop, 1725 West 6th Street, #403, Los Angeles, CA 90017
