Group exhibition Chapter II. Refusal

– Gianni Manhattan

“There's a vibration, a subtle and fragile heat, that makes a living being particularily delicious. You're extracting life by the mouthful. It's the pleasure of knowing that because of your intent, your actions, this being has ceased to exist. It's the feeling of a complex and precious organism expiring little by little, and also becoming part of you. For always, I find this miracle fascinating. This possibility of an indissoluble union.”
– Agustina Bazterrica, Tender is the Flesh

Chapter II. Refusal is the second iteration amongst a series of three exhibitions that explore different ways in which artists subvert the audience’s gaze to reveal hidden, coded and cannibalised imagery. This exhibition unites the practices of Raque Ford, Charlotte Houette, David L. Johnson and Dozie Kanu, presenting a collection of works fold in on themselves, deliberately evade systems of regulation and contain a moment of refusing or evading standardisation.

[Quelle: https://giannimanhattan.com/exhibitions/chapter-ii-refusal/, 08.01.2025]

Raque Ford, Charlotte Houette, David L. Johnson, Dozie Kanu