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Everybody is excited to present Chaoskampf by Elliott Jamal Robbins. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with Everybody.
The term Chaoskampf is defined as a recurring mythological narrative about the struggle between order and chaos, good and evil—often staged as a god’s defeat of a serpent or monstrous force. Iterations of this story have been told a seemingly countless number of times across eras and cultures, persisting today in the minds of disparate global audiences rather than as a single overarching narrative.
In this new body of work, Elliott Jamal Robbins uses the structure of Chaoskampf as a blueprint to interrogate contemporary systems of power, desire, and representation, particularly as they relate to race, masculinity, queerness, and the cultural mechanisms that determine who is seen as deserving of love. Many images throughout this exhibition pose as self-portraiture, but instead serve as tools for Robbins to pry open locked doorways within the artist’s personal…
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Everybody is excited to present Chaoskampf by Elliott Jamal Robbins. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with Everybody.
The term Chaoskampf is defined as a recurring mythological narrative about the struggle between order and chaos, good and evil—often staged as a god’s defeat of a serpent or monstrous force. Iterations of this story have been told a seemingly countless number of times across eras and cultures, persisting today in the minds of disparate global audiences rather than as a single overarching narrative.
In this new body of work, Elliott Jamal Robbins uses the structure of Chaoskampf as a blueprint to interrogate contemporary systems of power, desire, and representation, particularly as they relate to race, masculinity, queerness, and the cultural mechanisms that determine who is seen as deserving of love. Many images throughout this exhibition pose as self-portraiture, but instead serve as tools for Robbins to pry open locked doorways within the artist’s personal…
























































































































