Flow My Tears, Christopher Tracey

w/ Elisa Barrera, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Stephen Kent, Nico Lillo, Lotte Maiwald, Gili Tal, Torben Wessel, Lea von Wintzingerode and Alison Yip

At ACUD Galerie

Curated by Schrott Kipple and Paul DD Smith

March 6 – May 30, 2020

“The world will be Tracey, traced with an eternal visage. The lipstick traces of a kiss planted on every mirror, fitting every mouth, every reflection.”

Schrott Kipple, The Exegesis of Christopher Tracey

For the exhibition Flow My Tears, Christopher Tracey, the life and work of the late American author Philip K. Dick becomes a prism through which 9 artistic positions are displayed. The dissociative and unsettled subjectivities that Dick explored in his writing have become oddly commonplace in the current era of pervasive digital surveillance and the splitting and multiplication of the self across ever expanding networks. The political leaders and campaign managers of the present day have become increasingly adept at warping the realities of their electorate. Fake news, deepfakes and targeted feeds of information within socially atomised communities seem to evoke the malevolent influence of the demiurges that populate Dick’s fiction. The community of artists assembled for this exhibition are themselves vulnerable to the intentions and inventions of the curators. A goal of the show being an exploration of the pathos, absurdity and dangers of interpretation.

Elisa Barrera, Untitled (detail), 2020, Wall drawing with pigment, dimensions variable
Stephen Kent, Between the Golden Vessels and the Picture (Berlin Flohmarkt), 2020, smart phone photo direct UV print on Alubond, found tiles, natural stones, cement on panel 40 cm H x 35 cm W x 4 cm D
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Caustica, In Distro, Settling Dust, Catching the First Mute Sliced in the Morning, Introducing Woodworm, Birch Rings Bird Wings, Snowmen and Speedbumps, Green Jumbo Flip Queen, Woodcut Cookbuk, Flight as an Unfolding Figure of 8, Consider the Darkenss, The Beermat Collector´s Handbook, Putting Down the Gauntlet, The Hot Air Trick, Love Drip Lapse Into Dread, Confessions of a Blastodiscer, Foke Art, dimensions variable, woodcut prints on bankscream paper mounted around birch plywood, 2019
Stephen Kent, And I Will Meet You Behind Your Eyelids (Leaning Vase), 2020, fired ceramics, engobe, glaze, wood, laminate, 130 cm H x 49 cm W x 39 cm D
Nico Lillo, Mutually Mutant, 2020, cement,water color, cds, laser relief, 40 cm x 30 cm x 4 cm, demon 50 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm
Nico Lillo, Cute Feed, carved granite, cds, plastic, 2020, 40 cm x 50 cm x 18 cm cm
Nico Lillo, the garden of delays, 2020, oil on rocks, 3 objects: 30 cm x 20 cm x 10 cm approx each
Lotte Maiwald, Ameisenstraße, 2018, acrylic and felt tip on cotton, wall piece: 196 cm x 118 cm, floor piece: 380 cm x 148 cm
Gili Tal, 'Love and War', 2014, Sublimation print on MicroTexx, curtain rail, metal rings, plastic hooks, LED strip, 220 cm x 168 cm, Edition of 3
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h Torben Wessel, fluid leaves, 2019, variable length (this instance 13:12min), digital video projection, glazed ceramic, welded steel, 85 cm x 160 cm
Torben Wessel, fluid leaves, 2019, variable length (this instance 13:12min), digital video projection, glazed ceramic, welded steel, 85 cm x 160 cm
Lea Von Wintzingerode, reflex, 2018, oil on canvas, 80 cm x 109 cm
Julius Pristauz: Overcoming, out (backpack), 2020. Pink fjällräven kanken, various pride buttons, various accessories, nail polishes, drawing by the artist, photo prints, lyrics on paper
Alison Yip, Kindred Other, 2020, digital print, 63 cm x 84 cm
Schrott Kipple, The Exegesis of Christopher Tracey, 2020, photocopied zine, 15 cm x 21 cm, edition of 50

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