January 10th - February 12th
2025
“032c Gallery is pleased to present “CONTENT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX” with works by Allen-Golder Carpenter, Paul Ferens, Azize Ferizi, Shuang Li, David Shamie, Phillip Timischl, and Ryan Trecartin. The exhibition is on view from January 10 – February 12, 2025 at 032c Gallery, Kurfürstendamm 178, Berlin...
[Excerpt from press release]...Passwords operate in a dual capacity: they serve as both gateways and barriers. In a world increasingly defined by simulacra, Baudrillard argues that passwords collapse the distinctions between the real and the simulated. The object no longer simply represents—it produces meaning, becoming a critical node in a network of signs that shapes the social fabric...
From the hyper-curated presentation of a refrigerator as a marker of elite aesthetics, inspired by Kris Jenner’s fridge, to the cryptic codes embedded in Black meme culture, the works in “CONTENT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX” reveal the significance of objects as either tools of survival and resistance or as markers of luxury and aspiration. These meanings are not static but shift depending on the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which the objects are embedded.”
My work in the exhibtion “Black Internet”, a found footage film interspliced with recordings of an original poem, the videos include Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, scenes from the black kung fu movie called Besouro, about niggas in Brazil beatin up colonizers using the martial art capoeira, and most notably clips from the Montgomery river front brawl, a viral event where this black guy was recorded beating up rowdy white people with a folding chair, that way too many memes came from.
Im thinking about death, Im thinking about memes, Im thinking about what it means to be black, to be on the internet, and what it means to be black on the internet. We live in a time where it seems like exhaustion and disposability are at an all time high.