Under this mask, another mask // group exhibition / Abigail Ogilvy Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
January 9 - February 17, 2024
“The gender-fluid Surrealist Claude Cahun quipped, ‘Under this mask, another mask; I will never finish removing all these faces.’ Following Cahun, the artists in this exhibition fuse interiority and exteriority, recombining architectural elements and body parts in liberatory ways. Thresholds become places to stop and rest. Load-bearing structures are reduced to ornaments. Exits double as entrances. Signs are depleted of fixed meanings. Bright and kaleidoscopic, the works evoke bodies but none render a body whole. The artists offer exquisite corpses of spinning legs, monumental breasts, throbbing eyes, and skin-like surfaces–stretched and punctured. These bodies-in-pieces subvert the gridded architectures surrounding them, refusing facile narratives and normative expectations of gender and sexuality.” —Sam Adams (curator)
Artists: Seuil Chung | Leah Guadagnoli | Jen P. Harris | Julia Kunin | Leeza Meksin | Tuesday Smillie | Scott Vander Veen
