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Public Gallery is pleased to present Fear of Falling, the first UK solo exhibition by Chicago born, London based artist Russell Perkins. His practice examines the increasing financialization of culture, considering how risk, precarity, and economic imperatives register at the level of the individual. Engaging with the logics of prediction and control, Perkins adopts the aesthetics of administration to explore how speculation operates on visual, sonic, and spatial registers. Across the exhibition, political and financial structures are restaged as systems of belief, sustained by a desire for stability in the face of an uncertain future.
On the ground floor, the sound of wind whips across a six-channel audio installation, recorded from within a tree outside the artist’s bedroom. An accompanying film samples archival footage from various electoral celebrations, taken from American TV broadcasts from the 1970s to the present. The colors red, white, and blue flicker across the screen in…
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Public Gallery is pleased to present Fear of Falling, the first UK solo exhibition by Chicago born, London based artist Russell Perkins. His practice examines the increasing financialization of culture, considering how risk, precarity, and economic imperatives register at the level of the individual. Engaging with the logics of prediction and control, Perkins adopts the aesthetics of administration to explore how speculation operates on visual, sonic, and spatial registers. Across the exhibition, political and financial structures are restaged as systems of belief, sustained by a desire for stability in the face of an uncertain future.
On the ground floor, the sound of wind whips across a six-channel audio installation, recorded from within a tree outside the artist’s bedroom. An accompanying film samples archival footage from various electoral celebrations, taken from American TV broadcasts from the 1970s to the present. The colors red, white, and blue flicker across the screen in…
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