AR: Lonnie Holley at James Fuentes

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Originally Posted: May 31st, 2017

Note: This entry is part of August Review, our annual look back at this season’s key exhibitions. For more information, see the announcement here.

Lonnie Holley at James Fuentes

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The prevalence of shopping mall semiotics, imagastic diaspora and attendant fracture, the crippling ambivalence of things just next to each other when they have no reason to be, the psychotic level of things touching in culture, diamond ads next to Syrian bodies, perhaps reason for our assemblage catharsis, mending our fragmentation by manufacturing it.


See too: Lonnie Holley at Atlanta Contemporary

Lonnie Holley at Atlanta Contemporary

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Our continual and insistent desire for assemblage, Bruce Conner retrospective or Yuji Agematsu, 2007's unmonumental resurgence, and our weird collective desire for our own detritus repackaged. Why we desire our ruins? proffered answers by psychoanalysts as well as Nazis. Why aesthetic pleasure in our death, the flotsam of our cultural wreckage netted, the gore of culture. The inherent violence in this, to which Holley seems attuned.



See too: Yuji Agematsu at Real Fine Arts