Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber / Edgar Arceneaux
Thursday, May 11, 201711 AM — Sunday, Jul 30, 20176 PMPDT
| Mackey Garage Top: 1137 S Cochran Ave
Los Angeles, CA, USRelated
Exhibition on view Fridays and Saturdays, 11 am – 6 pm
For this eleventh iteration of the Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles exhibition series, former MAK Artists-in-Residence Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber work together with celebrated Los Angeles artist Edgar Arceneaux.
Photographs from artist Sabine Bitter’s archive, reaching back to the mid-1980s, come together in this installation to represent the moments of promise, conflict, and possibility encountered in urban landscapes and felt in the texture of a city such as Los Angeles.
Reyner Banham’s influential love-letter to the Southland, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), which changed the cultural perception of L.A. and its urban evolution, serves as a framework for Bitter and Weber’s ensembles of archival imagery. Their selection of photographs responds to Banham’s ways of seeing a city through architectural histories and how everyday actions and quotidian use form a city’s ecologies.
The exhibition’s title foregrounds an urban landscape of affective and material involvements, shifts, and movements that can be viewed as public, architectural, sociopolitical, and personal. No doubt that Banham, who came to celebrate the urban infrastructure built around the car, would love the idea of an exhibition in a garage.
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