![]() ![]() The exhibition’s environment provides a critical context for the artists to respond to and each artist responds to the environment how they wish. The sites I choose are usually emblematic ruins of late-stage capitalism. The exhibitions always begin with a proposed environment that is tied, metaphorically, to current events. How do you build the body of an exhibition? Is there some red thread when you locate specific projects? There will be a third and final part of EPOCH’s LACMA saga being released in early 2023. ![]() The latest exhibition is an echo of PHANTOM LIMB but the artists, within the current exhibition, have expanded upon ideas of identity to include post-humanism and gender multiplicities, as well as addressing concerns over land ownership and investigating speculative histories. At the same time, both exhibitions address the fragility of the institution and the issues of representation within them. A phantom limb is the sensation felt in the area when an appendage of the body has been amputated, so I was bridging the feeling of loss for that building to the loss of loved ones during the height of COVID. PHANTOM LIMB’s environment was modeled after the demolition of LACMA’s Ahmanson building and ECHOES begins in the excavation area where the forthcoming building for the permanent collection is slated to debut. Thank you, Kristina, for taking an interest in EPOCH and following our exhibitions! Yes, ECHOES is a continuation of PHANTOM LIMB. Can we, very hypothetically, say that ECHOES is a continuation of PHANTOM LIMB ? Two different exhibitions cover the liminal space between LACMA’s already eliminated building and the one yet to appear… Before we start to talk about ECHOES, I have a somewhat strange introductory question. ![]()
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