Amanda Beech: Future Possessive
2207 North Broadway LA, CA 90031
Saturday, September 21 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Nov 3, 2024
Here Is Elsewhere Gallery at the Front is delighted to present “Future Possessive”, Beech’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The title of the show speaks to a twisted scene of a techno-naturalist grammatological imaginary where machines of knowledge, a result of scientific, artistic, and mythological explorations, are enmeshed in, and routinized by capitalism. The exhibition features a new series of prints, drawings, and paintings on paper that begin from an interpretation of Ramon Llull’s Ars Magna, a holistic computational system developed in the 12th Century by the monk from Palma, Majorca, aiming to manifest the randomness of the cosmos. Llull’s Ars Magna was a serious game to play the infinite in the bounds of finitude. Significantly, these machines established the premise for computational algorithms today; systems that invisibly organize what seems to be natural and become persistent forces across time.