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Midway Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Super Deluxe, an exhibition of new work by Cameron Patricia Downey. With a limousine at the physical and thematic center of the exhibition, Downey is concurrently drawing on their own personal history, in this case their descendance from Black chauffeurs in the Midwest, and the history of Midway’s building as a former limousine garage.
Super Deluxe circles and jaunts around codes of luxury, pleasure, service and gameplay by a jostling of material, personal recollection, flavor and motion itself. In a sociopolitical context wherein the concept of wealth has footed itself entirely on a project of expropriation and dispossession, the ‘luxurious’ becomes a station riddled with precarity. What is ‘fabulous’ and what is ‘Ghetto Fabulous’ often is in constant, if not eternal flux. Luxury then is a performance — a signifier with no sign, a wealth with no home. This body of work comes about by way of vinyl…
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Midway Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of Super Deluxe, an exhibition of new work by Cameron Patricia Downey. With a limousine at the physical and thematic center of the exhibition, Downey is concurrently drawing on their own personal history, in this case their descendance from Black chauffeurs in the Midwest, and the history of Midway’s building as a former limousine garage.
Super Deluxe circles and jaunts around codes of luxury, pleasure, service and gameplay by a jostling of material, personal recollection, flavor and motion itself. In a sociopolitical context wherein the concept of wealth has footed itself entirely on a project of expropriation and dispossession, the ‘luxurious’ becomes a station riddled with precarity. What is ‘fabulous’ and what is ‘Ghetto Fabulous’ often is in constant, if not eternal flux. Luxury then is a performance — a signifier with no sign, a wealth with no home. This body of work comes about by way of vinyl…
