Drawing inspiration from the “Dark Forest Theory,” which suggests that civilizations remain hidden to avoid conflict, Salim Green’s practice explores themes of concealment, visibility, and opacity. Adapting this idea, Green investigates relational dynamics and Black existence through acts of strategic withdrawal, emphasizing unknowability, interiority, and survival. His projects often take the form of interconnected nodes scattered across various locations, each contributing to a larger discourse that is accessed incompletely and discreetly. This approach challenges traditional notions of exhibition and display, offering varied, hyper-contextual points of communication that invite viewers to connect language to image, medium, and place. Green's work operates on an assumption that an exhibition or a display of art cannot be read as a complete statement for a general audience. Instead, his project offers varied, hyper-contextual points of communication, asking viewers within and outside of art spaces to connect language to image, medium, and place, and to experience how “both hiding and evangelizing” can produce public discourse. ...
Société is a Berlin-based gallery with an international profile—its core operations lay in Europe, the United States, and Asia. The gallery’s exhibitions, publications, and boundary-pushing initiatives have established a vital dialogue among artists working internationally. Société focuses on establishing long-term, symbiotic relationships with its gallery artists, many of whom had their first solo exhibition with the gallery. The structure of the gallery’s program and the format of its projects is an artist-led approach that responds to the ever-evolving conditions of artistic research and production—at times even pushing beyond traditional exhibition formats. Although differing in media and approach, Société’s artists address the relationship between cultural production and consumption, the circulation of information, identity, and cultural history in an era highly mediated by technology. The gallery's publishing initiative Edition Société, has worked with accomplished graphic designers on a number of acclaimed artist's books. The gallery has additionally produced 12" records with several contemporary musicians. Société has exhibited at Art Basel / Art Basel Miami Beach / Art Basel Hong Kong / Frieze London / Frieze New York / Frieze LA / ARCO Madrid / Independent New York / Independent Brussels / Art Cologne / Art Brussels / Enter Art Fair / Gallery Weekend Berlin / and Art Berlin among other locations. ...
