GROUP EXHIBITION

— Harun Farocki

Deep Play brings together a multigenerational group of artists who share a structuralist tack, using formalmeans to dismantle the systems that scaffold our lived reality. Across painting and sculpture, video, cut-papercollage, and cameraless photography, their work indexes recent methods to expose and upend art’s means ofproduction—implicating the checkered conditions of life under capitalism in its wake. Employing documentarycandor or gallows humor, poetic dissonance or an ethics of care, the assembled artists mount trenchantcritiques of the levers of societal control: from automation and surveillance to racial animus and the carceralstate, the antiseptic voids of virtual space to the material dreck of industrial consumption. The exhibition’stitle is lifted from a 2007 video by Harun Farocki, which urges viewers to look beneath the surface of massmedia spectacle. Deep Play thus furrows our perceptions to counter a sense of totalizing hold, stressing thefractures in the current order to imply a new way forward.