“A Machinery for Living” Exhibition
Petzel Gallery
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Petzel Gallery presents “A Machinery for Living,” a group exhibition organized by Walead Beshty.
There must be no doubt about the dangerous essence of the everyday, nor about this uneasiness that seizes us each time that, by an unforeseeable leap, we stand back from it and, facing it, we discover that precisely nothing faces us: “What? ” “Is this my everyday life? ” Not only must one not doubt it, but one must not dread it; rather one ought to seek to recapture the secret destructive capacity that is in play in it, the corrosive force of human anonymity, the infinite wearing away.
- Maurice Blanchot
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints—such people have a corpse in their mouth.
- Raoul Vaneigem
A house is not a machine á habiter. It is the shell ofa man – his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
- Eileen Gray
We live, for the most part, in enclosed rooms.
- Paul Scheerbart
Media
Schedule
from July 02, 2014 to August 08, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-07-02 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Atelier EB, Lewis Baltz, Thomas Barrow, Maurice Blanchot, Claire Fontaine, Jay DeFeo, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Morgan Fisher, Dan Flavin, Rudi Gernreich, Liam Gillick, Liz Glynn, Eileen Gray, Jan Groover, Rachel Harrison, Larry Johnson, Craig Kauffman, Sharon Lockhart, Lee Lozano, Josiah McElheny, Lucy McKenzie, Helen Pashgian, Raymond Pettibon, Francis Picabia, Stephen Prina, Paul Scheerbart, Barbara T Smith, Dr. Dain L Tasker, Raoul Vaneigem, Kelley Walker, James Welling, Henry Wessel, Franz West, Christopher Williams