Between Critique and Absorption: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture
The six contemporary artists included in this exhibition鈥�Kota Ezawa, Gabriel Kuri, Josephine Meckseper, Kaz Oshiro, Dan Peterman, and Shinique Smith鈥攅mploy a range of visual and conceptual strategies to interrogate consumerism. As the title suggests, these artists offer nuanced commentary on the subject matter. Rather than criticizing the compulsion to consume on a superficial level, they dismantle this insistent cultural phenomenon from the inside out. This approach requires direct appropriation of the vocabularies and methodologies of the market forces they target, hence the use of source material like post-consumer plastic waste, discarded clothing, receipts, advertising and marketing campaigns, window displays, and common household goods. The resulting artworks expose consumption as a flawed but enduring societal impulse.
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The six contemporary artists included in this exhibition鈥�Kota Ezawa, Gabriel Kuri, Josephine Meckseper, Kaz Oshiro, Dan Peterman, and Shinique Smith鈥攅mploy a range of visual and conceptual strategies to interrogate consumerism. As the title suggests, these artists offer nuanced commentary on the subject matter. Rather than criticizing the compulsion to consume on a superficial level, they dismantle this insistent cultural phenomenon from the inside out. This approach requires direct appropriation of the vocabularies and methodologies of the market forces they target, hence the use of source material like post-consumer plastic waste, discarded clothing, receipts, advertising and marketing campaigns, window displays, and common household goods. The resulting artworks expose consumption as a flawed but enduring societal impulse.
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