Group Show at Antenna Space

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Thing becomes stuf. Stuf become our thing, a movement, today in art the object is animate with Kristeva flesh, a new form of object that is no longer what you see because what you see is sexually confusing. Why does a couch look like a tanned corpse, why does our/ painting look like a redundant skin. The moment is marked! Question for grad students: Why are we attracted to this? 

See too: Anti-ligature rooms, OUT NOW!

Shahryar Nashat at Silberkuppe

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In the glut consumed of CA images Daily the immediacy of a work to affect, or stylize "meaning" while withholding it, of which Mona Lisa's smiles is the dead pig beaten titular example of, a gesture of something that like code affects a totemic omen, an endless connotation of meaning, and in this exhibition everything awaits you with bated breath, however deciphering a meaning is a red haired lure, the question is why we feel affected to decipher anything at all, of which Nashat has long been decidedly brilliant at, is of supreme importance.

See too: Merlin Carpenter at MD 72 , Group Show at Salle Principale