Public Redaction: Select Works from Deselected Collections
A Collaborative Exhibition by Emji Saint Spero + Jeremy Kennedy

June 1 - July 31, 2024
Liminal Space SF

Opening Reception + Ambient Screening: Saturday June 1, 7-11pm
Art Rave + Performance:Saturday June 15, 7-11pm

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Liminal Space SF presents Public Redaction: Select Works from Deselected Collections, an immersive staging of collaborative works by Los Angeles based artists Emji Saint Spero + Jeremy Kennedy. Curated by Sam Claude Carmel.

Created in the aftermath of a critical diagnosis, Public Redaction presents, an immersive staging of could-have-will-have-beens from the artists’ Endlessly Yours and Business as Bruisual series, ranging from paint-starved works on paper, to sharply creased sonic and sculptural dimensions.

A soft shoulder of implied intimacies and pre-medicated repulsions comprised of quotidian objects, entangled interpersonal ephemera, bureaucratic traces, wry multivocal interventions, and fringe-lit sculptural nuances. An acute awareness of temporal uncertainty permeates the work, and is given weight through textual and spatial accumulation, densely stacked, unwieldy, and occasionally floor-bound in form.

The artists compose an elastic present in which precarity and collapse are at once inevitable and an act of resistance to stasis, in which agency is de-and-re-constructed, then offered up in grand banal gestures as an invitation towards complicity, as cute captioning for collective witness.