For his first solo show in Los Angeles, the French artist presents a selection of new and recent works in which youthful delights like toys, costume jewelry, carnival rides, playground equipment, and family vacations factor prominently. Since the 1990’s, Pierre Ardouvin (b. 1955, FR) has steadily cultivated a reflection on popular culture’s utopic vernacular and the fate of its ritual consumption of commodities–spanning industries, class relationships and identities. Ardouvin’s astute use of appropriation and re-presentation of everyday objects exercises a poetic scrutiny of individual and collective psyches.