B. Wurtz at Richard Telles & ICA LA

(Richard Telles, ICA LA )

There is now a waste issue called "aspirational recycling" in which "people set aside items for recycling because they believe or hope they are recyclable, even when they aren’t" - no longer just trash clogging our excretory paths but hopes clogging our recycling. Headaches as evidence of anxiety at the hands of trash, of which the Wurtzian model provides a relief in seeing the objects cared for, not amassed in landfill graves but given the second life in carousels. Our aspirations finally lets them levitate, holding them off the ground, where they would become trash. Which they are suspended from.


see too: Paul P., B. Wurtz at Cooper Cole, B. Wurtz at Lulu, “The Crack-Up” at Room East (B. Wurtz), B. Wurtz at Metro Pictures

Harald Szeemann at ICA LA

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Obvious the all sorts of questions like what it means to recreate exhibitions. And all the weirder that the recreation through the simple ubiquity of its documentation and its outsize viewership now as to then, this, the recreation, will the remembered one. The stubborn block. We look through CAD, through its lens to the object. The document becomes the object seen.