At ICA LA, Cwynar probes what we can learn from our fickle taste and consumerism.
Tag: Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
With the body, language, and the experience of time as points of departure, the exhibition engages the limitations of representation and images as sites of interpretation.
They represent a collage of dialogue with different stakeholders, as well as the artist’s own experience of moving through the world as a fellow member of the public.
Working between photography and sculpture, Mendez explores the tension between fiction and truth, visibility and absence, with an interest in how constructions of history and geography shape our sense of self.
Completed earlier this year, No Go Backs (2020), shot on Super 16mm film with an original sound score and no dialogue, follows two teenagers (and real life friends) who leave the city for the wild.