Werid Flex - Group Show

Curated by Juan Obando - Humanities Institute ASU - 26th September 2024 - 15th May 2025

South London Lights, 2024

Wall-mounted sculptural light box with engraved inscriptions. Select pine, plywood, steel, acrylic, neon and oil paint.

32 x 126 x 18 cm

“Times flies, but not as fast as an MQ-1 Predator Drone. Brat summer is gone like it never came. Thinking of the time humans have spent on earth is as difficult as remembering the first time you heard the word “meme.” We immediately start scrolling away when confronted with the imminency of our disappearance —with the reality that Facebook will soon be a mass grave.

Feeling human today is as unfamiliar as making a phone call. Our history starts in 2020, and it seems like it ends every day. Did it? Is tagging an ancestral practice? Was corporate culture just a bad acid trip? Can I train my emotional companion robot dog to create abstract paintings for Instagram? Is The Gap still a thing?

But humans are still within us today. Some are now here with you. Grab the chair, jump the fence, hide your skin, and tag yourself. Levitate. Look at the devil in the eyes and be at peace with being watched while a Waymo accelerates towards you as flowers hug each other. Let insects do the work. Breath deep. Feel that?

To be human is a weird flex.”