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New York Life Gallery is pleased to present Scrap, an exhibition of new works by James Bantone. Bantone’s practice interrogates how commercial imagery shapes our relationships to others and ourselves. He draws on Foucault’s concept of the “entrepreneur of the self” as the paradigmatic subject of our neoliberal era, exploring how political and economic forces require us to market ourselves as commodities. Through his installations fusing photography, sculpture, painting, and video, Bantone’s work examines this precarious relationship between subject and object in contemporary culture.
The images in Scrap are sourced from catalogs of display mannequin companies, featuring mannequins alongside their human doubles after whom they were modeled. This juxtaposition reveals the uncanny connection between the idealized, commodified figure and its human inspiration, with a keen awareness of all that is lost in translation. Bantone’s works reappropriate the source material through layers of…
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New York Life Gallery is pleased to present Scrap, an exhibition of new works by James Bantone. Bantone’s practice interrogates how commercial imagery shapes our relationships to others and ourselves. He draws on Foucault’s concept of the “entrepreneur of the self” as the paradigmatic subject of our neoliberal era, exploring how political and economic forces require us to market ourselves as commodities. Through his installations fusing photography, sculpture, painting, and video, Bantone’s work examines this precarious relationship between subject and object in contemporary culture.
The images in Scrap are sourced from catalogs of display mannequin companies, featuring mannequins alongside their human doubles after whom they were modeled. This juxtaposition reveals the uncanny connection between the idealized, commodified figure and its human inspiration, with a keen awareness of all that is lost in translation. Bantone’s works reappropriate the source material through layers of…
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