Mike Kelley at Gagosian

Exhibition view from Mike Kelley at Gagosian, Los Angeles
xhibition view from Mike Kelley at Gagosian, Los Angeles

I was heart warmed by the video in this last image. A fine mist of lit-up dust drifted in the foreground. Through this brownian dance the camera followed seven or so grey munchkins, hunchbacked, with tall pointy hats, as they slowly orbited a featureless grey room. They seemed to be intentionally sleep shuffling, and at moments became absorbed in a wizardly tai chi. A wonderfully strange, slowed-down soundtrack accompanied the projection: Muffled voices extended into incomprehensible, musical abstraction. Delicious.

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