This artwork, captured in a moody, dimly lit scene, features a striking composition of shadows and silhouettes against a weathered, yellow-toned wall. The sharp lines of the metallic staircase frame the image, creating a sense of depth and leading the eye towards the shadowy figures below. The figures' poses, suggestive of movement or contemplation, add a sense of mystery and intrigue to the overall scene. The artwork seems to explore themes of human presence, interaction, and the interplay between light and shadow, utilizing a distinctive style that creates a captivating and evocative visual narrative. ...
The collective DIS is exemplary in defining what Hannah Black in Artforum defines as the “relentless anxiety about the conditions and possibilities of art and life, express(ing) the despairing atomization, and the compromised longing for solidarity, of a post-bourgeois creative class hovering on the brink of its own obsolescence”.
Formed in 2010, after the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis and global recession, DIS as an entity has over the decade typified its aesthetic, cultural, political and economic impact. Composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro, DIS’ interventions blur the distinctions between art, curation, theory, advertising, fashion, retail and technology, manifesting across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects, often all at once. Their work exists often simultaneously online and in situ, as well as more traditional mediums like photography, sculpture, video and installation. Their current multi year project dis.art is a subscriber-based online video channel popularising in “edutainment”, helping us understand the complicated social machinery of our techno-capitalist world. The channel presents new commissions with other artists as well as DIS’ own content. ...
Contemporary art gallery established in 2013 with a strong interest in expanded institutional critique. Project Native Informant works with 16 artists and collectives, producing 5-6 exhibitions per year and hosting performances, concerts, talks and events.
