Public Redaction

Liminal Space SF
16 Sherman Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

June 1 - July 31, 2024

Collaborative works by
Emji Saint Spero
Jeremy Kennedy

Sound contributed by
Alexandrea Archuleta
(PIANO RAIN)

Liminal Space SF presents Public Redaction, an immersive staging of collaborative works by Los Angeles based artists Emji Saint Spero + Jeremy Kennedy.

Created in the aftermath of a critical diagnosis, Public Redaction: Select Works from Deselected Collections 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 multi-vocal 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.

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