And Apollo
November 16th - December 15th 2019
Quick consumption, unrelenting– a feeling befallen by Dionysus. The Apollonian may be the crest of Modernity, but it has given way to a time of uncertainty where the reign of misdirection and sleight of hand finds itself at home in the hyperreal. What was once behind the scenes has become the scene itself. Exposed to daylight, it doesn’t seem to slow– the pocketing of reactivity and command over attention casts a dark shadow in plain sight. Where is Apollo?
Perhaps we’ve been put in an uncanny position of reevaluating Modernism, sent by a desire for a sense of truth and justice, although allergic to its essentialism. The Museum of Modern Art has taken this head on in a necessary reevaluation. What we thought we knew we no longer do, standing on our own accelerating ground. If the fabric is expansive, then the intersection of the weave remains strong. When the air is thick and smoke fills the room, feel for the clearing. Within the weave there are open windows, if the threads are stretched with great care.
This is the inaugural exhibition for take care, an artist run gallery project by Molly Duggan and Brendan Getz, both graduates of the low residency MFA program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago directed by Gregg Bordowitz. They approach take care as a space informed by an expanded sense of community rooted in poetics, as a stewardship platform for artists who are based outside of Los Angeles or underrepresented in public discourse, and inflect an urgent tender sense to their work.
