Kyla wrote some thoughts around language, loneliness, the online generation, true creativity, AI, and envy and the ways they shape how we interact with our world
. In these years, the voices of those in the margins have been heard by those in power. But the voices of those in power are deaf to the everyday world outside their bubbles. They have heard it but can never speak it. That is the problem of our time: that the social is disappearing as a model of collective expression. In any case, the narratives of the young and the anonymous, the underprivileged and the disenfranchised, will not be silenced. They are already disappearing.
, her last poem at the New Museum in New York in 2016. And they have. If our attitudes toward human-made materials and objects continue to change, we may also be seeing the emergence of a new form of artist who has been able to assimilate both to and without the past.
. She continues: Language is the one universal signifier we all know, and we can all use it to communicate and feel the pain of being isolated.
Kyla wrote some thoughts around language, loneliness, the online generation, true creativity, AI, and envy and the ways they shape how we interact with our world—though the concerns that these works evoke are at odds with the content of the paintings. But they are certainly smart, and their conceit is certainly not purely ironic, as is often the case with the work of younger artists who are often seen as precursors of the new 90s. The paintings work is simultaneously dense and light, with traces of patterns of dots and lines, and with an almost painterly opacity that suggests the physicality of the objects and surfaces that are at the center of the paintings. In the last piece in the exhibition, the luminous, almost angelic forms of a few men who look like a half-dozen superheroes are almost abstract, like crystalline formations of superpowers, while the backgrounds of the paintings are a collage of various sources, including architectural renderings of the city of Berlin, books by Umberta and Frederic Alfred Barr, and images of famous faces in everyday life.The contrast between this pictorial world and the one depicted by the artist is made clear in the other works on view. The paintings, whose motifs are often just a few lines of text or a few lines of text, are all done in black and white, with the occasional image printed directly on canvas. The paintings, which are hung in a rather subdued fashion on the gallerys white walls, are often made up of the same elements—the lines of text, the drawings of the faces of famous people, and so on. But in contrast to the paintings, which are painted over with black ink, there are a few works in which the words are painted on the canvas itself. And in contrast to the paintings, which are painted over with black ink, there are a few works in which the words are painted directly on the canvas. In these works, the artists gesture becomes the means of communication, and the painting becomes a way of doing so. The process of painting becomes the metaphor for a process of communication.
. The exhibition consisted of three works, arranged in a tightly curtained hallway, with the exception of one piece, Self-Portrait, which was placed in a large, brightly lit space above the entrance. This piece was a memento-mori that addressed the artist, her past, and her future.In a room adjacent to the gallery, the artist had installed a pair of antenna that send a stream of signals to her laptop. As the signal gets longer and stronger, it starts to seem like she is transmitting her thoughts to a remote. The radio that responds to her voice is controlled by her laptop, so that she can interact with it without having to leave the room. The work draws on many sources of inspiration, including my own experience as a hacker and my own ambivalence about the technological barriers that barrier me, making me think about what my own artistic possibilities are. The work also refers to the process of programming, the collection of fragments that allow us to produce a new form of expression.In this exhibition, we saw that it is possible to use art to create a kind of world. We saw that it is possible to use art as a means of communicating, and in turn communicate the possibility of an international, intercultural experience. We saw that art can also be an instrument of surveillance, a tool of control, a site for self-awareness and self-reflexivity. The artists in this show had seen through these barriers, and were able to present the possibilities for a more international, intercultural world.
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