Mungo Thomson
25 Jan - 11 Feb 2007
MUNGO THOMSON
Between Projects
25 January – 11 February 2007
As part of the group exhibition Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation is pleased to present Between Projects, the first solo presentation of the work of Los Angeles-based artist Mungo Thomson in France.
Thomson’s erse practice is marked by an acute awareness of the aspects and rituals of daily life, particularly those that could be considered peripheral, overlooked, outside the common perceptual frame or tangential to late capitalist purview. His projects take as their subject the silences, pauses, digressions and voids that form the « negative space » of our commonly-held cultural narrative. With an array of media and approaches, Thomson’s subjects have ranged from film and video work to sculpture and installation, from sound pieces and publications to drawings and textiles. His subject matter has included the Hubble Space Telescope, Roadrunner cartoons and the legendary Hollywood stunt swordsman Bob Anderson. A mixture of deadpan humour and spatial sensitivity, of both social and phenomenological presence, defines the look of Thomson’s work. Upon closer inspection, however, his projects seem to lament and critique the proliferating homogeneity of culture, which conditions, consciously or not, our relationship with the world.
Between Projects
25 January – 11 February 2007
As part of the group exhibition Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation is pleased to present Between Projects, the first solo presentation of the work of Los Angeles-based artist Mungo Thomson in France.
Thomson’s erse practice is marked by an acute awareness of the aspects and rituals of daily life, particularly those that could be considered peripheral, overlooked, outside the common perceptual frame or tangential to late capitalist purview. His projects take as their subject the silences, pauses, digressions and voids that form the « negative space » of our commonly-held cultural narrative. With an array of media and approaches, Thomson’s subjects have ranged from film and video work to sculpture and installation, from sound pieces and publications to drawings and textiles. His subject matter has included the Hubble Space Telescope, Roadrunner cartoons and the legendary Hollywood stunt swordsman Bob Anderson. A mixture of deadpan humour and spatial sensitivity, of both social and phenomenological presence, defines the look of Thomson’s work. Upon closer inspection, however, his projects seem to lament and critique the proliferating homogeneity of culture, which conditions, consciously or not, our relationship with the world.