DAISUKE FUKUNAGA – BEAUTIFUL WORK

Posted on 2022-03-21

The exhibition is Fukunaga’s first solo exhibition outside of his native Japan.

The artworks on view feature “the worker” in active and passive states, always with a pleasant expression.

In the gallery’s large space, the exhibition’s namesake work, Beautiful Work is a frontal portrait of a pert person, perhaps a chambermaid preparing to clean up after others. Compositionally echoing Edouard Manet’s Un bar aux Folies-Bergere, Fukunaga’s ready subject contrasts to the weariness of Manet’s barmaid. In the same room, Crawler in the City is a self-portrait of the artist as a lone Google mapper, while Dance casts cart-pushing co-workers in an homage to Matisse’s icon of euphoric choreography.

Opposite – Beautiful work, 2022

Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2022

Nonaka-Hill
720 N. Highland Ave.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

www.nonaka-hill.com

  

VERA LUTTER – FRAGMENTS OF TIME PAST

Posted on 2022-03-14

In response to an editorial commission—her first—from the New York Times Magazine, Lutter visited the Acropolis and Plato’s Academy in Athens, and the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounio in August 2021, braving the extreme heat and wildfires that threatened Greece that summer. Given the lengthy exposure times of her photographs, individuals passing through the sites have left no visible traces in the images, while the blurring of windswept trees contrasts with the unchanging solidity of the architecture. Employing the durational aspects of her medium—as opposed to the theoretical instantaneity of “the decisive moment”—and eschewing darkroom manipulation or digital alteration, Lutter engages with the fundamentals of photography.

Opposite – Temple of Athena, Acropolis: August 25, 2021, 2021

Exhibition runs through to May 28th, 2022

Gagosian
22 Anapiron Polemou Street
11521 Athens
Greece

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EXIT ISSUE 44 S/S 2022 SOUGWEN CHUNG

Posted on 2022-03-04

Internationally renowned, Sougwen Chung’s artistic practise uses software, sound, light and space to address the closeness between person-to-person and person-to-machine communication. Hand-drawn and computer-generated marks allow Chung to investigate the relationship between the physical and digital world.

A former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab and a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration, Chung was selected in 2019 as the Woman of the Year in Monaco for achievement in the Arts & Sciences.

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EXIT ISSUE 44 S/S 2022 YASSER ABUBEKER

Posted on 2022-03-03

Focusing on authenticity, Yasser Abubeker aims to document delicate and complex stories centred on communities and the intersections he exists within.

Alongside producing shoots for the likes of The New York Times, London’s Design Museum and i_D, Abubeker’s personal work as a director promises honesty, thoughtful narrative arcs and colour.

With an open approach and a passion for inclusivity, Abubeker is determined to leave his mark on the filmmaking scene.

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EXIT ISSUE 44 S/S 2022 DEBA HEKMAT

Posted on 2022-03-02

Born in Kurdistan, model, creative and activist Deba Hekmat uses her platform to spotlight issues such as beauty standards, mental health, immigration and self-acceptance. After fleeing her hometown of Sardasht at the age of four with her mother and aspirations of a better shot at life, Hekmat began a new start in South London.

Not to be underestimated and humble in her advocacy for social justice, Hekmat continues to be a figure of hope- breaking down the status quo and proving that anything is possible.

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MICHAEL HILSMAN – MAN ON BED

Posted on 2022-02-28

“Man On Bed” the work from which this exhibition takes its name, is deceptively flat in both form and title. Like an analyst’s couch, the titular lounger is a device for day-dreaming. Its pink upholstery is a ground upon which Hilsman has rendered – with unsettling detail – a man’s feet protruding from beneath a blanket. Light glints off each nail and the second toe on the left foot bends at the tip, revealing a broken phalanx. Bony and elongated with sallow skin, these alien appendages are a metonym of modern man’s estrangement from his own body, a corpus increasingly objectified and pathologized. They illustrate what Hilsman describes as his effort to “foreground the physical in order to highlight the unseen.”

Opposite – Figure With Flowers And Spoon, 2021

Exhibition runs through to April 23rd, 2022

Almine Rech
18 avenue Matignon
75008 Paris
France

www.alminerech.com