Sunday readings and conversation with: Se Young Au Badly Licked Bear Antonia Crane Mystic O'Reilley Kayla Tange On chronic health conditions, adoption, grief and erotic labor. Gallery Hours 1:00-6:00pm Kayla Tange: Soft Sell solo exhibition on view through Oct 12 Curated by Kene J. Rosa Last Projects is pleased to present Soft Sell, a solo show by LA-based artist Kayla Tange, whose work spans video, installation, sculpture, performance and image making. Tange examines systems of power, bodily autonomy, invisible labor, and the corrosive aftermath of silence. Her work explores how the wellness industry, like other systems, instrumentalizes affect and agency, and leverages precarity to maximize profits. Her use of materiality highlights the demands made on bodies framed as ornamental, which are utilized as spectacle, both in vulnerability and as protection through the lens of display. Adopted by a Japanese American family that survived internment at the hands of the United States government, Tange reclaims personal and collective histories through archival practices, found materials, and text to explore themes of belonging, displacement, and transformation. By focusing on her lived experience as a Korean adoptee, sex worker, and chronically ill person, this show explores modalities of making that are intentionally both less taxing and toxic, and were made at a time of reckoning with the possibility of having to give up her career as a performer due to the conditions exacerbating her declining health. Kayla Tange (b. South Korea) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist working in video, installation, sculpture, and performance. Performing as Coco Ono, Tange addresses spectatorship, labor, and bodily autonomy, using dark humor and satire to confront the commodification of emotional and physical labor. Her work frequently blurs the line between art, performance, and social practice, as seen in co-created shows Stripper Co-op, Cyber Clown Girls, Sacred Wounds, Hwa Records and Private Practices: AAPI Artist and Sex Worker Collection at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. Collaboration and community-building are central to her practice, transforming stories of shame into symbolic value.