JOHN MILLER – THE COLLAPSE OF NEOLIBERALISM
2020-02-17John Miller has been exploring notions of identity, economics, and social class throughout his forty-year practice. His latest exhibition concerns, among other things, a sense of everyday malaise and life’s petty annoyances. It features a series of large-format photographs, two installations, and a video work titled Toll Free.
Mannequins are an iconic theme in this show. Miller characterizes them as simple anthropomorphized clothing racks that can nonetheless prompt unnerving degrees of identification. Miller’s current photographs, installations, and videos insert these figures into familiar, even normalizing, scenarios that underscore their function as objects of desire onto which we, as both spectators and consumers, project a miasma of fleeting trends and fashions. These projections convey not only the sphere of popular culture but also the expectations of artworks operating within it.
Opposite – Consent (Manufactured), 2019
Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2020
Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York
