Mourning Sun
Margot Samel•Mar 20, 2025 — Apr 19, 2025
Fredericks & Freiser•Mar 20, 2025 — Apr 19, 2025
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Margot Samel and Fredericks & Freiser are pleased to present Mourning Sun, a solo exhibition by Dustin Emory (b.1999, Atlanta, Georgia), spanning both gallery spaces in New York. This marks Emory’s first solo exhibition with each gallery, and his debut in New York.
Patterns are hard to break. Particularly when they are inherited by our dominant social moment that progresses within and through its own repetitions. Drop a rock in a charted path of ants and two paths form around the obstacle, marching on with expedited efficiency. But fail to provide adequate infrastructure to a lower income neighborhood and those living within it will have far fewer opportunities for economic self-betterment, repeating inherited patterns of social despair. The phonetic doubling of Dustin Emory’s Mourning Sun–heard both as Morning Sun, and Mourning Son– proposes a dialectical entrapment that reflects on experiencing contemporary life within these cycles of...More
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Mourning Sun
Margot Samel•Mar 20, 2025 — Apr 19, 2025
Fredericks & Freiser•Mar 20, 2025 — Apr 19, 2025
Press Release
Margot Samel and Fredericks & Freiser are pleased to present Mourning Sun, a solo exhibition by Dustin Emory (b.1999, Atlanta, Georgia), spanning both gallery spaces in New York. This marks Emory’s first solo exhibition with each gallery, and his debut in New York.
Patterns are hard to break. Particularly when they are inherited by our dominant social moment that progresses within and through its own repetitions. Drop a rock in a charted path of ants and two paths form around the obstacle, marching on with expedited efficiency. But fail to provide adequate infrastructure to a lower income neighborhood and those living within it will have far fewer opportunities for economic self-betterment, repeating inherited patterns of social despair. The phonetic doubling of Dustin Emory’s Mourning Sun–heard both as Morning Sun, and Mourning Son– proposes a dialectical entrapment that reflects on experiencing contemporary life within these cycles of...More