"This December's picks focus either directly or indirectly on contemporary social issues, showcasing cultural protest and frameworks for envisioning new possibilities. Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascismat The Box, for example, counters creeping repression with a deliriously inclusive heterogeneity. Horror at Sprüth Magers features artists who explore revulsion and terror, giving visual form to the very real sense of dread many of us are experiencing."
"The inaugural show at the new East LA art space LA Plaza Projects includes two bodies of work by Mexican-American artist Alan Luna. Metametates comprises photographs of metates - traditional stone grinding slabs - digitally arranged in erotic compositions. Referencing early-20th-century photographs of Mexico taken by American photographers like Edward Weston and Paul Strand, Luna's Metametates cheekily challenge the essentializing lens through which these images portrayed Indigeneity."
December picks focus either directly or indirectly on contemporary social issues, showcasing cultural protest and frameworks for envisioning new possibilities. Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascismat at The Box counters creeping repression with a deliriously inclusive heterogeneity. Horror at Sprüth Magers features artists who explore revulsion and terror, giving visual form to widespread dread. Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack's assemblages at Night Gallery repurpose discarded objects from LA streets into poetic forms that reflect recent urban crises. LA Plaza Projects inaugurates with Alan Luna's Metametates and Huipiles Colorados, which subvert photographic and Modernist tropes to interrogate Indigeneity and Mexican-American cultural relationships.
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