GRACEFUL CADAVER, ELEGANT CARCASS Co-Curated by BBQLA & Mike Nesbit 3149 Verdugo Road, LA, CA 90065 Artists : Aaron Estrada, Anabel Juárez, Andrew Sexton, Angie Seykora, Ben Noam, Brendan Lynch, Chris Lux, Daniel Paul Schubert & Andrés Cortes, Edward Salas, Elspeth Schulze, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Henrik Munk Soerensen, Johanna Jackson, Lizette Hernández, Malcolm Kenter, Nick Makanna, Patrick Walsh (JPW3), Quintin Atchison, Ryan Flores, Shane Darwent, Sofie Ramos, Tofer Chin, Vincent Pocsik, William Scott, Willy Reed, and Yeni Mao GGLA is proud to present Graceful Cadaver, Elegant Carcass, co-curated by BBQLA and Mike Nesbit. This marks the second in a series of exhibitions and collaborations that form Ubiquitropolis, a sprawling constellation of shows organized by GGLA, ringing true to the sense of omnipresence referenced in the title. Housed in an unassuming warehouse located a few blocks from GGLA’s main gallery space at 3149 Verdugo Road, the exhibition invites viewers into a cavernous space containing sculpture. The exhibition title refers to the collaborative drawing game “Exquisite Corpse,” which originated with a group of Surrealist artists in the early 1900s to create impromptu compositions with others. Like this game, Graceful Cadaver Elegant Carcass operates in much of the same way, placing the viewer in a physical setting where they must navigate a series of sculptures, each made by an artist or duo separately, yet combined within space to inform and inflect upon one another, building meaning and narrative through each chance association. Each work within the exhibition is a world within itself, yet placed within the context of one another, deeper meanings are both built and broken, and the viewer is forced to reckon with this unruly and unfurling constellation of limbs, torsos, heads, and legs, all frankensteined together to form the three-dimensional exquisite corpse that is Graceful Cadaver, Elegant Carcass.