Galleria
Marcus Herse: Galleria; April 13 - May 11, 2013; Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Utter ambiguity of the Arcades: street and house… What is ‘always the same thing’ is not the event, but the newness of the event; Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project
Meatless options at Hot Dog on a Stick; Hot Dog on a Stick
Greene Exhibitions is pleased to present Marcus Herse: Galleria. The title comes from a series of videos Herse created at various commercial complexes in the greater L.A. area. In this new body of work, the artist navigates the interior spaces of shopping malls, seeing the public carrying out its actions on this elaborately constructed stage. The gallery will be transformed into a viewing room to feature a selection of different videos from the series throughout the run of the exhibition.
Herse’s attraction to the mall lies in its immediacy, as an image of images. The artist’s unobtrusive filming techniques enable him to portray his path through the compound. Along the way, we see the crowds candidly milling about the corridors and shops in a continuous, single-level, point-of-view shot. The slow and relentless forward motion of the shot provides the viewer with the opportunity to consider the interactions between people, spaces, objects, and his or her own position within a continuously changing mesh of signals, options, and compositions. As the video leads one through the different commercial experiences, Herse’s passage resets the expectations and possibilities for appropriating public spaces.
Steffen, Patrick. Marcus Herse, Flash Art International, Issue 291, July/August/September 2013: 116.
