ALL TOGETHER
807 S. Los Angeles Street. Los Angeles, CA 90014
Saturday, June 24 at 6:00 PM 8:00 PM
Ends Jul 29, 2023
With huge excitement and honor, Lorin Gallery is announcing an unprecedented group show “All Together”. Opening on 24th June through August 26th , the exhibition “All Together” features participatory artists coming eleven different countries and celebrates the diverse cultural and aesthetic background the gallery has consistently devoted to with its profile and program. At “All Together”, viewers will join a visual conversation formulated by artworks of the same, classic size of 60 x 48 inches, which pays homage to the wider art history and envisions a communal language that transcends borders and differences. At the time the exhibition was conceptualized, it was towards the end of the global pandemic, and on the verge of Russia’s aggression into Ukraine, a time when human condition has been unprecedentedly complicated and pushed into extremity, a time when the meaning of “togetherness” was challenged, shaken. For the upcoming show, we would like to examine through art’s narration and imagination the meaning of “All Together” both in our current world and across human history, and in the hermeneutics of having art from different artists, culture, religion, and geographical regions together, an experience imbued both with randomness and necessity. Hence, we have invited artists from around the world, including Asia, Africa, Central Europe, The Netherlands and U.S. to be part of the exhibition. Joined by Soko, Rita Maikova, Salome Rigvava, Iván Forcadell, Willem Hoffnagel, Sophie-Yen Bretez, Suanjuaya Kencut, Noa Ironic, Natalie Strait, Kelani Fatai and Nicole James, the visual conversation surrounds one of the most ancient, sociological acts of gathering, in the context of as grave as war, disease, migration, taboo, and climate change, as mundane as a daily dining table, and as visceral as a gendered body. In another sense, “togetherness” has always been at the very center of the act of painting, and thus, reaches far to the ontological core of what an exhibition aspires to arrive at. The process and conceptualization of painting entails to contemplate on and to redefine a visual “togetherness” of painterly elements, and it is from this perspective that “All Together” searches