{"uid":"0AGh16XVGWWNSxIp","type":"curator","tags":[],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"The Good Life","summary":"The Good Life addresses the relationship between class, material culture and authenticity through an ironic assessment of two social attitudes that have transpired over the past decade: lifestyle minimalism and wellness culture. Encouraging a form of consumerist individualism that moves from the aesthetic to the political: \u201cif your environment is pleasurable and safe, everything is fine\u201d, these attitudes feign cultural and political neutrality in their presentation of coded narratives of colonialism as told through art historical innuendo, Modernism and ethnography.\n\nComing from Western European modernism and mid-century design, lifestyle minimalism proffers a better model of living through more authentic home d\u00e9cor and original artefacts. Similarly, the wellness industry assuages spiritual and bodily anxieties via self-help rituals, exotic cosmetics, and healing devices. Through the appropriation of cultures and objects, the aestheticising of the other, these trends perpetuate problematic systems of value and cultural ownership.  \n\nThrough two exhibition-specific commissions, video, installation, photography and collage, The Good Life interrogates these issues with perspicacious parody, irony and sardonic wit. Embodying such roles as scientist, colonial explorer, corporate retail team member, or alter ego, the artists critically appraise the two interconnected trends. They interrogate society\u2019s obsessions and seductions; the championing of self-fulfilment and \u2018good taste\u2019.","space":"The show consists of installation, sculpture, wall pieces and video. Ideally, the space will share similar characteristics to the traditional \u2018white cube\u2019: moderate-sized rooms for the installations, sufficient wall space, plus rooms for the videos. If these are not available, we can install the works together in such a way that the sound of the videos do not interfere with each other. Depending on the given architecture and dimensions of the venue, we'll define the show\u2019s trajectory and rhythm.","artists_proposal":"Alberto Baraya, Colombian, https:\/\/nararoesler.art\/en\/artists\/28-alberto-baraya\/ (gallery website)\nIlana Harris-Babou, American, https:\/\/ilanahb.com\nNathan Mabry, American, https:\/\/nathanmabry.studio\nShana Moulton (also with Nick Hallett), American, www.shanamoulton.info\nAna Navas, Ecuadorian, https:\/\/ana-navas.net\nEduardo Sarabia, Mexican-American, www.eduardosarabia.com\nAmie Siegel, American, http:\/\/amiesiegel.net\nStephanie Syjuco, Filipina, www.stephaniesyjuco.com","members":[],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":10,"names":"Adrienne","surname":"Drake","email":"adrienne_drake@yahoo.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"506333065","address":"via Macerata 15","city":"Rome","nacionality":"American","country_id":"113","birthdate":"1971-06-23T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1971-06-23T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+39 3385707438","web":"Instagram"}