Évasion

Installation view, back wall: Alison jones, 'Art House', watercolours, foreground left to right: Nicole Wermers, 'Suite 2', sculpture, Josephine Meckseper, 'Contaminator' video, Milly Thompson, ' Romance Posters, series 2', Alison Jones and Milly Thompson, 'Évasionista' sculptural installation
Alison Jones and Milly Thompson, 'Évasionista', perormance/ installation, 2012
Installation view, Alison Jones, 'Art House', watercolours
Installation view, back wall: Alison Jones, 'Art House', watercolours, foreground: Nicole Wermers, 'Suite 2', sculpture
Installation view, left to right: Milly Thompson, ' Romance Posters, series 2', Josephine Meckseper, 'Contaminator', video
Installation view, Foreground: Nicole Wermers, 'Suite 2', Background left to right: Josephine Meckseper, 'Contaminator', Milly Thompson, 'Romance Posters, Series 2', Alison Jones and Milly Thompson, 'Évasionista'

Alison Jones, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Milly Thompson, Nicole Wermers

LGP, Coventry

14 January - 19 February 2012

LGP presents Évasion, an exhibition which performs genuflection before the neo-liberal imperative - institutional critique in f&*k-me shoes.

Évasion considers the luxury magazine and the veils through which the amorous glances of commodities charm and fascinate with their illusions: Identification, Aspiration, Wealth, Social Superiority, Luxury, Distinction—all imbricated in an orgy of bourgeois values.

To-be-looked-at-ness and being-for-others are the enduring signs of women’s asymmetric relation to power, insistently pervasive throughout the private world. The elliptic worlds of Fashion, Art, Media, Entertainment circle each other in the galaxy of F-A-M-E and the nexus is money.

The ultimate co-dependency is the artist guiltily producing recherché commodities which furnish glamorous lifestyles within this realm.