Social Inventories
Essex Flowers•Aug 02, 2024 — Aug 11, 2024
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Essex Flowers is pleased to present Social Inventories, a solo exhibition by Felix Kindermann. Human behavior is shaped not only by the interactions between people, but is informed by the built environment and the values assigned to it. The objects and images in Social Inventories serve as a platform to unpack this process of signification—the act of assigning meaning to ambiguous signs.
Taking inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social capital, in which ownership of objects and experiences signify one’s social class regardless of actual wealth, Kindermann flips the script to question the social functioning of semi-public amenities. The awning, like the pool and the fence—other ambiguous features of our built environment and previous entities of Kindermann’s artistic research—rely on the subjectivity of its users and their relationality to class for their signification. The awning on the Park Avenue co-op and the Brooklyn bodega might have roots in the same...More
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Social Inventories
Essex Flowers•Aug 02, 2024 — Aug 11, 2024
Press release
Essex Flowers is pleased to present Social Inventories, a solo exhibition by Felix Kindermann. Human behavior is shaped not only by the interactions between people, but is informed by the built environment and the values assigned to it. The objects and images in Social Inventories serve as a platform to unpack this process of signification—the act of assigning meaning to ambiguous signs.
Taking inspiration from Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social capital, in which ownership of objects and experiences signify one’s social class regardless of actual wealth, Kindermann flips the script to question the social functioning of semi-public amenities. The awning, like the pool and the fence—other ambiguous features of our built environment and previous entities of Kindermann’s artistic research—rely on the subjectivity of its users and their relationality to class for their signification. The awning on the Park Avenue co-op and the Brooklyn bodega might have roots in the same...More
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