EXHIBITIONS
Gothic Materialism, a group exhibition featuring the artists Henry Adams, Ruby Bailey, Arna Beth, Ben Glass, Brian Oakes, and Chris Velez.
The gallery's inaugural show takes its name from Mark Fisher's 1999 PhD dissertation Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction, a work that posits an aesthetic landscape on the margins of organic and nonorganic life. Gothic Materialism develops out of ongoing conversations with artists around technology's relationship with mysticism and historical consciousness. Technospiritualism operates to reconsider our present reality through the clash of transcendental and material.
Curated by Olivia Ek
Soft Systems in collaboration with Flatline Gallery present "Paths for the Study of Contingent Dimensions," a group exhibition of five artists exploring the diagram as narrative. Here, the diagram operates as a vector for world-building, constructing a new type of reality according to the patterns and structures through which the artist thinks, plotting rationality in spatial terms.
Featuring work by Vivien Adamian, J. Grace Giordano, Ian James, Tong Pan, and Deb Sokolow.