Free Fall

Vijay Masharani, Justine Neuberger & Louis Osmosis

Curated by Quinn Schoen

At Shoot The Lobster, Los Angeles, US

January 16 – March 07, 2021

Free Fall revolves around the notion of the free fall, and the sensations of groundlessness and disorientation that spring from it. The exhibition features three artists, Vijay Masharani (b. 1995), Justine Neuberger (b. 1993), and Louis Osmosis (b. 1996), who each grapple with disruption as a generative conceptual and compositional mode. Through painting, audio, sculpture, and drawing, they explore frantic, promising new relations between space and temporality. “In falling,” writes Hito Steyerl, “the lines of the horizon shatter, twirl around, and superimpose,” and its symptom is not one of collapsing but, rather, of floating – an extra-worldly suspension in which time thickens, fused to motion.[1] Perspectives shatter, and modes of seeing are transformed and invigorated. This lack of horizon is both destructive and productive: to fall is a state of activation.

 

[1] Hito Steyerl, “In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective,” e-flux journal, issue 24 (April 2011).

— Quinn Schoen

Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Justine Neuberger, Scroll of Fire (after Bialik), 2020, Oil on canvas, 34 × 72 inches (86.36 × 182.88 cm)
Louis Osmosis, Satellite, 2020, Plasma-cut satellite, 43 × 30 × 26 inches (109.22 × 76.20 × 66.04 cm)
Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Justine Neuberger, The Swan (no. 17), 2020, Oil on canvas, 24 × 24 inches (60.96 × 60.96 cm)
Louis Osmosis, Zipped Bread Device #𝟹, #𝟷, and #𝟸, 2020 (from left to right) ⁣ Sliced bread, shellac, hot glue, epoxy, zippers, acrylic vitrine, plywood, screws, polyurethane⁣ ⁣
Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Justine Neuberger, If your memory serves you well, 2020, Oil on canvas, 29 × 20 inches (73.66 × 50.80 cm)
Vijay Masharani, ¡t’s the alt-r¡ght r¡ck rub¡n, 2020, Graphite on paper, 9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm) (framed)
Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Louis Osmosis, One Hundred Dollars (Money Heart), 2020. Dollar bills, papier-mâché, polyurethane foam
Justine Neuberger, Time Fetish 2, 2020, Oil on canvas, 29 × 18 inches (73.66 × 45.72 cm)
Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Installation view: Free Fall, STL LA, 2021
Vijay Masharani, 4 generations bum tickers (Mum’s Side). so, I’m eating around the yolks, across the board, through it. Out, 2020, Graphite on paper, 9 × 12 inches (22.86 × 30.48 cm) (framed)