SECURITY AS A STATE OF VIOLENCE
Security as a State of Violence attempts to apprehend the colossal, disorienting pain of complicity. Marks and stitches describe complicity's gallows, depths, and contours. Ink, metal, and fabric lend language, visual form, and emotional weight. Scenes, locations, and material embodiments render sources, processes, and sites of violence.
Arrival: The co-constitutive processes of enclosure and foreclosure map out a thin plane of existence that ceaselessly contracts. Ever-invasive frontier ideology expands into new fields and entrenches old ones. Settlement, modernization, and privatization narrow the possibilities of existence, disintegrate alternatives, and dim imaginations. The show excoriates quotidian ideas such as the Future, the Child, Nature, Hope, Life, and Security, revealing how they are cynically employed for contradictory aims - namely violence and death - under the liberal guises of Progress, Development, History. The work asks, what is a Future to a Child so thoroughly over/pre-determined? More simply, what is Life in a world of death?
And Departure: There's nowhere to go but here - into the mess, into ourselves, and into one another. The Terminal is terminal.
Arrival: The co-constitutive processes of enclosure and foreclosure map out a thin plane of existence that ceaselessly contracts. Ever-invasive frontier ideology expands into new fields and entrenches old ones. Settlement, modernization, and privatization narrow the possibilities of existence, disintegrate alternatives, and dim imaginations. The show excoriates quotidian ideas such as the Future, the Child, Nature, Hope, Life, and Security, revealing how they are cynically employed for contradictory aims - namely violence and death - under the liberal guises of Progress, Development, History. The work asks, what is a Future to a Child so thoroughly over/pre-determined? More simply, what is Life in a world of death?
And Departure: There's nowhere to go but here - into the mess, into ourselves, and into one another. The Terminal is terminal.
Security as a State of Violence was most recently shown at the A.P.E. gallery in August 2019 in Northampton, MA as part of the A.R.C. series. Individual prints from the show have been exhibited elsewhere. The show also included a curation of four other artists. If you are interested in displaying or acquiring any of the work, please contact: [email protected].